Once upon a time tomorrow

In 1920, Zamyatin yet favorable to the Russian Revolution detects germs of Soviet totalitarianism which he is the subject of his work in laying the foundations of the dystopian genre that will draw later Huxley and Orwell. As against the utopian fiction dystopia awakens our critical sense in taking us in a time and a place that escapes our normality. Here we meet a thousand years later on a planet that has only one fully occupied government to impose happiness to men who have no names but numbers. In this world all activities are ordered according to the table for hours, with the exception of two hours per day, and for the moment only. Instead of rebelling inhabitants with dread thinking at the time that everyone was left free to occupy his time at will, a great anything troublemaker and misfortune. Besides the issue that concerns the world of the future is why the man who invented animal husbandry has not applied his method to the human thereby producing pre-adapted breeds to community needs. We understand through this story that the government wants a happy people by the idea that the ruling elite is happiness, even using coercion to achieve its ends. On this ideological obsession of happiness imposed that disintegrated all utopian attempts defeated by reality. You will have to wait to be born of the sleeping mass resistance to a saving to be given again to man the chance to be happy if he wants.
Oddly Zamyatin will be one of the few Russian authors to be authorized by Stalin to leave Russia to seek refuge in France where he died.