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We (novel)

We (Мы, 1920) is a novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. We is a dystopic satire, generally considered to be the grandfather of the genre and direct inspiration for Brave New World (1932) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948). It takes the totalitarian and conformative aspects of Communism to an extreme conclusion, depicting a state that believes that free will is the cause of unhappiness, and that citizen's lives should be controlled with mathematical precision. The story is told in the diary of the protagonist, called "D-503", in which he describes his work building a spaceship The Integral, whose purpose is to seek out and convert any extraterrestrial civilizations to the happiness that the One State has discovered, and his misadventures with a resistance group that seeks to do away with the Benefactor and his regime.

The novel was banned by Stalin and got Zamyatin arrested, though he eventually was exiled to Paris.

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