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The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's  1984  and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia Yevgeny Zamyatin's  We  is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who d