Description: "[Zamyatin's] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism--human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself--makes [ We ] superior to Huxley's [ Brave New World ]." -- George Orwell "At this dystopian moment in world politics, everyone's talking about 1984 , but take a look at the novel that inspired it (or, at least, which George Orwell reviewed soon before he wrote 1984 )--Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. . . . The dystopia Zamyatin painted has, alas, many echoes with today's surveillance society--just think of China's budding 'social credit' program, which monitors citizens' movements. Big Brother was a piker, compared to Xi Jinping. Zamyatin saw it coming." -- Lit Hub

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