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Yevgeny Zamyatin · 1924

Zamyatin's novel of a glass-walled future state where citizens are numbered and every hour is scheduled, written in 1920 and 1921; it influenced Huxley and Orwell.

Why it was banned: Refused publication in Soviet Russia, it first appeared in English in New York in 1924, and was not published in the USSR until 1988.

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Theme
Classics, Fiction, Politics & power
Shelf status
In print
Banned by
A government
Banned in
Soviet Union
Why it was banned
Refused publication in Soviet Russia, it first appeared in English in New York in 1924, and was not published in the USSR until 1988.
Author
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Topics
Literature - Classics / Criticism, Literary Criticism, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Fiction, dystopian, Classic Literature, Science Fiction
First published
1924
Shelf note
In print; ban history from the public record.
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