Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884 - 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. He is most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story set in a dystopian future police state.
Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) following the October Revolution.
In 1921, We became the first work banned by the Soviet censorship board....
