We

We (Russian: Мы) cover of the first complete edition of the novel in Russian (a publishing house named Chekhov, 1952). We (Russian: Мы) a dystopian science fiction novel written by Evgeny Zamyatin in a satirical style in 1920. The events revolve around the thirty-second century. This novel describes a society, where strict complete control over the individual is maintained (names and titles are replaced with letters and numbers, and the state even controls intimate life), a society based ideologically on totalitarianism, scientism, and denial of imagination, governed by the "Benefactor" who is "elected" on an unquestionable basis. "True literature is not made where the executives, who feel self-satisfied, are, but made by madmen, ascetics, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics" (from the article "I Am Afraid"). This was the doctrine of Zamyatin's writings. And the novel "We," written in 1920, became an artistic embodiment of this. During the revolution and civil war, the author was close to leftist socialist revolutionaries, and this was reflected in the work — for example, "The Fourth Revolution," which the rebels fight for, clearly reflects the concept of the "Third Revolution" of anarchists and leftist socialist revolutionaries. At that time, the novel was not published in Soviet Russia: literary critics saw it as a malicious caricature of the future socialist and communist society. Additionally, the novel contained references to some events of the civil war ("the war of the city against the village"). In the late 1920s, a campaign of persecution by the literary authorities against Zamyatin took place. The literary newspaper wrote, "Zamyatin must understand that the simple idea that the country, which builds socialism, can do without such a writer." The novel influenced Aldous Huxley's works in his 1932 novel "Brave New World," and much of it was quoted by George Orwell in his 1949 novel "1984." The world of the novel