The narrator, D-503, works as a spacecraft engineer, and he lives in his assigned housing unit, as everyone else does, which is made entirely of clear glass: an eerie Panopticon, similar to Jeremy Bentham’s prison design. The One State exists within a post-apocalyptic landscape, when most of the world’s population was destroyed. One thousand years after the revolution that brought the One State into being world-wide, each person is assigned only a number, which operates as that person’s name. Widely seen as a direct criticism of the Soviet socialist utopia, Zamyatin also intended to indict all governments who act to preserve stability at the cost of human freedom, in any form, and he reportedly based his One State society on a visit to England. However, We spawned some of the most famous dystopian future fiction writing in English, including George Orwell’s 1984, Ayn Rand’s Anthem, and Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. We was the first novel banned by the Soviets’ censorship bureau consequently, it was not published in Russia until 1988. in 1924, this novel is considered the originator of the dystopian future fiction genre. We, by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin, is a science-fiction novel set in a dystopian future totalitarian society.
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