Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We, written in the early 1920s as the new government of the Soviet Union was beginning to show its authoritarian character, is one of the great classics of dystopian fiction. It presents a chilling vision of the future of the Soviet experiment.

IntroductionThe Context of WeLiterary Approaches to WeA Note on the Text and Translation WeIn ContextWork, Productivity, and "Scientific Management" from Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) from Vladimir Lenin, The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Governement (1918) from Aleksei Gastev, On the Tendencies of Proletarian Culture (1919) Proletarian PoetryVladimir Kirillov, "We" (1917) Aleksei Gastev, "We Grow Out of Iron" (1918) Aleksei Gastev, "Whistles" (1918)Aleksei Gastev, "To a Speaker" (1919)Vladimir Kirillov, "The World Collective" (1918)Ivan Logimov, "We Are the First Peals of Thunder" (1919)Aleksei Mashirov-Samobytnik, "Follow Us!" (1919)Vasily Aleksandrovsky, "Workers' Holiday" (1921)H.G. Wells from H.G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought, Chapter 9: "The Faith, Morals, and Public Policy of the New Republic" (1901)from H.G. Wells, "Scepticism of the Instrument" (1903) from H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (1905) Early Reception from Aleksandr Voronsky, "Literary Portraits: Eugene Zamyatin" (1922) Zamyatin on We from Yevgeny Zamyatin, "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, Etc." (1923)ImagesEarly Twentieth-Century Art Early Soviet Posters Images of Zamyatin