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Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We inspired Orwell and influenced the Western imagination

  • Written by: Sheila Fitzpatrick, Professor of History at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We inspired Orwell and influenced the Western imaginationWassily Kandinsky – Composition 8 (1923).Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

This year is the centenary of Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We – a major influence on George Orwell’s dystopia 1984, as well as an important early contribution to the burgeoning genre of science fiction.

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