We is the forty-record journal of D-503, an engineer supervising the building of The Integral, a spaceship intended to impose the philosophy of the totalitarian One State on other planets: "If they will not understand that we are bringing them a mathematically faultless happiness, our duty will be to force them to be happy" (p. In 1931 at Zamyatin's request, Stalin allowed him to emigrate to Paris, where he lived, unsupported by the local Russian community, until his impoverished death on March 10. After 1929 Zamyatin could not publish at all at home. When the Soviets began to censor literature in 1922, the first manuscript banned was We, which then appeared in English in the United States (1924) and in Russian in Prague (1927). Over the course of his career Zamyatin wrote about forty books, a few of which were quite influential in their time, but he is remembered primarily for one he could not publish. Although he was a naval architect by training, when he was in Great Britain (1916–1917) to supervise the building of Russian icebreakers, he published The Islanders, a satire of the English. Zamyatin's critical posture was not limited to Russia. The son of a Russian Orthodox priest and a mother who had received a liberal education, he was a constant critic, siding with the Bolsheviks before the revolution and chiding the new government after their victory. Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884–1937), who was born in Lebedyan, Tamov district, Russia on February 1, is best known for having written We (1920), the archetypal anti-utopian novel.
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