Dystopias
So Russia was already collapsing by the time you read 1984?
You might be too young to remember Pol Pot, who, with an eerie grin on his face, slew a third of his nation trying to force his people into the ideal communist mold that existed only in his mind. And then you might want to study the current regime in North Korea, where they largely HAVE been forced into that antlike mold. This stuff is real, and it can happen again.