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Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (ЕвгеÌ?ний ИваÌ?нович ЗамÑ?Ì?тин occasionally translated into English when Eugene Zamyatin) (February 1, 1884 - March 10, 1937) was a Russian author, best known for his novel We, a story of dystopian future which influenced Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ayn Rand's Anthem.

Zamyatwithin likewise wrote the total of short stories, in fairy tale form, that constituted satiric criticism of the Communist regime around Russia like in the story just about a city in which the city manager decides that to produce everyone happy he should produce everyone match. He starts by forcing each of these, himself involved, to sleep in the large barrack, so to shave heads to turn into capable the bald, and so to become mentally disabled to equate intelligence down. This plot is very similar thereto of 'A Future Utopia' (1891) by Jerome K. Jerome whose collected works were published three times in Russia before 1917.

Zamyatinside was innate in Lebedian, Russia, two hundred miles south of Moscow. His father was the Russian Orthodox priest & schoolmaster and his mother the musician. He exposed naval engineering in St. Petersburg from 1902 until 1908 during which he joined the Bolsheviks. He was arrested in a period of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and exiled but returned to St. Petersburg in which he lived illicitly prior to moving to Finland in 1906 to finish his studies. Giving to Russia he began to write fiction as a hobby. He was arrested & exiled another period within 1911 but amnestied in 1913. His Ujezdnoje (The Provincial Tale) around 1913, which satirised life in the little Russian town, brought him the degree of fame. A next month he was tried for maligning a armed forces inside his story Na Kulichkakh. He continued to contribute articles to various socialist newspapers. Fallowing graduating as a naval engineer, he worked professionally home & overseas. Within 1916 he was sent to England to supervise a construction of icebreakers at the shipyards around Walker and Wallsend while living in Newcastle. He wrote A Island-dweller satirising English life, & its pendant "A Fisher of Men", two published fallowing his link to to Russia in late 1917.

Fallowing a Russian Revolution he edited several journals, lectured in writing & edited Russian translations of works by Jack London, O Henry, H. G. Wells and others.

Zamyatin supported a October Revolution but opposed the formulas of censorship under the Bolsheviks. His works were progressively critical of the regime. He with boldness declared: 'Confessedly literature might just survive while these are created, does'nt by persevering & dependable officials, however by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels & skeptic.' This attitude driven his position to get progressively hard when a 1920s wore in. At long last, his works were banned & he was non permitted to publish, particularly when a publication of You inside the Russian emigree journal around 1927.

Zamyatin was in time given permission to leave Russia by Stalin in 1931, after a intercession of Gorki. He settled within Paris with his wife, around which he died in poorness of the heart attack in 1937.

He is buried around Thiais, good south of Paris. Ironically, a necropolis of his final resting place get on Rue diamond state Stalingrad.

Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yee reviews collections of Zamyatin's short fiction and essays.

Music under Soviet rule: Goldstein Hoax
Shostakovich, Zamyatin, Goldstein, and The Bolt.

The Works of Zamyatin
An introduction to Zamyatin and dystopia.

Evgeny Zamiatin (1884-1937)
Materials for author's "We" (1922), compiled by Gregory Freidin, Stanford University.






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