![]() ![]() The extent of its influence on another major work of futurism, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, has been debated Huxley denied that he had read the book, but Orwell and others identified strong similarities between Huxley's and Zamyatin's novels, and the central plot device of a romance that arises in the midst of a completely centralized and mechanized society is common to the two books. The novel's greatest influence was visible abroad it was admired by English novelist George Orwell and was a key predecessor to 1984. ![]() It circulated in manuscript, however, and was well known to a variety of Russian writers. ![]() The first book banned in the young Soviet Union, We was not published in Russian in a complete version until 1952, and was not officially approved until the perestroika era of cultural openness that preceded the fall of Communism. He also wrote shorter fiction, mostly satirical, that remains less well known but has much to offer students of the early Soviet period of Russian literature. Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) was the creator of the novel We (1920), a science fiction satire on totalitarianism that was both notable and extremely influential. ![]()
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