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We Yevgeny Zamyatin translation by Natasha Randall Read Sept 2020 This book was written in Russia in 1918 and considered to dangerous to publish there (it was finally published there in 1988). It is a dystopian view of the world in the distant future when people live by logic and everyting is preplaned for happiness and efficiency. Our hero becomes infatuated with another woman who is trying to start a revolution which he unwittingly becomes part of. This book is said to have been read by Orwell and Huxley before they wrote their dystopican classics. And I can see similarites in the love story and retraining from 1984, and the structure of the world from Brave New World Over all I had trouble following the story... I really didnt get it lol. But I can now say I have read it.