Zamyatin's WE, like Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 is a classic science fiction novel fact unmasks the chilling realities of the erosion of individuality. What makes Zamyatin's account more compelling, HOWEVER, Is that he wrote the novel from within the fledgeling Socialist state of 1920's Russia (It was not even published until there 1988). THEREFORE, Zamyatin can lay claim to a firsthand understanding of the fallacies of the Soviet collective unlike the eccentric British intellectuals Orwell and Huxley. Although Zamyatin's language, at times, is a bit peculiar by nature, this Twentieth Century Classics translation is Perhaps the easiest to understand, as the translator shied away from use Word That would not register in the mind of a smoothly contemporary English reader. If you have read Brave New World or 1984 you Will certainly want to compliment them by reading this excellent masterpiece in 20th century European literature!