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Wikipedia
We is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which assists mass surveillance. The structure of the state is Panopticon-like, and life is scientifically managed F. W. Taylor-style. People march in step with each other and are uniformed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by logic or reason as the primary justification for the laws or the construct of the society. The individual's behavior is based on logic by way of formulas and equations outlined by the One State.
We is a dystopian novel completed in 1921. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond and work in the Tyne shipyards at nearby Wallsend during the First World War. It was at Tyneside that he observed the rationalization of labor on a large scale.
Subjects
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- authoritarianism
- biography
- classic literature
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- corrupt practices
- criticism and interpretation
- dystopia
- dystopias
- dystopias - fiction
- electronic surveillance
- fiction
- fiction, dystopian
- fiction, general
- fiction / literary
- fiction, romance, general
- fiction, science fiction, general
- group identity
- literary
- literary criticism
- literature - classics / criticism
- literature: texts
- modern fiction
- my (zami︠a︡tin, evgeniĭ ivanovich)
- pg3476.z34 m913 1983
- pg3476.z34 m913 2006
- political fiction
- political science
- russian fiction
- russian fiction--20th century
- russian & former soviet union
- russian language materials
- russian novel and short story
- russian prose
- russian satire
- russian science fiction
- satire, russian
- science fiction
- science fiction, russian
- soviet union, fiction
- totalitarianism
- totalitarianism and literature
- translations into english
- untranslated fiction - general
- utopias