In this book of 1920, Yevgeny Zamyatin anticipated brilliantly the whole "totalitarian" literature designed to expose the abominations of the Soviet regime. Except that unlike his successors, Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, he wrote his book while the regime led by Lenin was still in its infancy, which gives it an almost prescient. Zamyatin and not written as a journalist is one of the great masters of Russian poetic prose of the first century. Highly Recommended
