Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) wrote We (completed 1921), the pioneering dystopia of the One State, a glass city of numbered citizens under total surveillance, that directly influenced Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Suppressed in the Soviet Union, it stands at the head of the modern dystopian tradition. A naval engineer and committed modernist, Zamyatin eventually left the USSR for exile in Paris.