This book is both the SF, the romance, and political structure. The author is Russian and wrote in 1920. We will trust him enough to have a piercing sense of what may be a "strong government." In this strange world, people live in the only state service live in glass buildings because privacy is unthinkable, to "reproduce" with partners designated by the system (when you will not even choose yours at haphazard, so much the right choice accounts that only primitive left it to nature). The "hero" is a researcher, he works on a project shuttle will be able to allow his company, the final stage of the development, to go spread their method of happiness to other civilizations, by force if necessary . And he believes. Then comes the day when he met this woman, I-330. Slowly, our hero recounts in his diary his gradual path to madness (or love?). Book a tortured, breaking, which will leave you breathless, you revolt, will fill you with too great joy to better stab you. The French version is the first that was published this book, even before the Russian version.
