We — a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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We (Russian: Мы) is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin completed in 1921.

It was written in response to the author’s personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond and work in the Tyne shipyards at nearby Wallsend during the First World War. It was on Tyneside that he observed the rationalization of labour on a large scale.

The first English translation of We was published in 1924.

… it is not necessary to be intimately familiar with the totalitarian political structure of Stalin’s Russia to feel the full impact of We. Instead, the clarity of this book’s language and the amazing characterization and plotting carry the reader into a world both absurd and nightmarish, transcending what must have been…