Full Description
Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We is one of the great classics of dystopian fiction. Experimental and provocative in both style and content, it was the first major literary work to be banned in the Soviet Union. This critical edition features an entirely new annotated translation, as well as an introduction, contextual materials, and images related to the text.
Contents
Introduction
The Context of We
Literary Approaches to We
A Note on the Text and Translation
WeIn Context
Work, Productivity, and "Scientific Management" from Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)
from Vladimir Lenin, The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Governement (1918)
from Aleksei Gastev, On the Tendencies of Proletarian Culture (1919)
Proletarian Poetry
Vladimir Kirillov, "We" (1917)
Aleksei Gastev, "We Grow Out of Iron" (1918)
Aleksei Gastev, "Whistles" (1918)
Aleksei Gastev, "To a Speaker" (1919)
Vladimir Kirillov, "The World Collective" (1918)
Ivan Logimov, "We Are the First Peals of Thunder" (1919)
Aleksei Mashirov-Samobytnik, "Follow Us!" (1919)
Vasily Aleksandrovsky, "Workers' Holiday" (1921)
H.G. Wells from H.G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought, Chapter 9: "The Faith, Morals, and Public Policy of the New Republic" (1901)
from H.G. Wells, "Scepticism of the Instrument" (1903)
from H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (1905)
Early Reception from Aleksandr Voronsky, "Literary Portraits: Eugene Zamyatin" (1922)
Zamyatin on We from Yevgeny Zamyatin, "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, Etc." (1923)
Images
Early Twentieth-Century Art
Early Soviet Posters
Images of Zamyatin
