Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Bolshevik who was arrested under the Tsar in 1905 and repeatedly exiled from St. Petersburg, and then banned under Stalin — a man who saw revolution consumed by the tyranny it replaced. His novel We, written 1920-21 and first published in English in 1924, imagines the One State: a city of glass where every citizen is visible at all times, where individual names have been replaced by alphanumeric designations, where the imagination itself has been surgically removed. Zamyatin was the first to render the panopticon city as a complete fictional social system, influencing Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, and every dystopia since. This episode examines the novel as a warning from inside the revolution — what happens when the collective suppresses the individual, when transparency becomes control, when the state demands the surrender of inner life.
SPOILERS! Please note that due to the nature of this podcast, each episode describes a novel in detail, including plot spoilers.
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