Yevgeny Zamyatin

Tuesday, 02 November 2021

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The Century-Old Russian Novel Said to Have Inspired ‘1984’

New York Times 02 Nov 2021

“We,” by Yevgeny Zamyatin, transports us to an authoritarian society governed by technological efficiency ... .

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Vladimir Putin’s Waning Tolerance for Art

The Atlantic 26 Oct 2021

The installation’s actual meaning was very different ... [ Read ... [ Read ... The biennial’s main project, titled “Thinking Hands Touching Each Other,” was inspired by We , a novel by the Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin that addresses control and intimacy in a totalitarian system; the book was banned by Soviet censors, and the writer died in exile in Paris.

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No, Black People Can’t Be “Racists”

truthout 20 Oct 2021

With images in my mind from Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopic novel, We, the attacks on critical race theory give me nightmare visions of a future day when our students (perhaps donning brownshirts by day and white hoods at night) will record us teaching about white privilege, systemic racism and implicit racial bias ... For example, he writes. ... W.E.B.

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The Historical Falsification of Columbus’ ‘Crimes’

The American Spectator 11 Oct 2021

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history ... Not true ... None! ... But, as Yevgeny Zamyatin said, “America existed before Columbus for ages, but only Columbus found it.” Hans Selye, though, clarified it best ... .

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Ten Years Ago, Occupy Wall Street Lit a Spark in Zuccotti Park

WhoWhatWhy 21 Sep 2021

They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to picks@whowhatwhy.org ... From Politico ... At the same time in Petrograd (formerly St Petersburg), a Russian writer named Yevgeny Zamyatin was writing a novel whose hi-tech future dictatorship would eventually prove as influential as Čapek’s robots.

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Sunday View: The Best Weekend Opinion Reads, Curated Just For You

Yahoo Daily News 01 Aug 2021

Read full article. The Quint. 1 August 2021, 4.06 am·10-min read. Inside Track. Kishor’s Hand Seen. Start your Sunday with your weekly dose of political gossip courtesy Coomi Kapoor ... Russian novelist and critic, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel titled We, imagined a 26th century utopia wherein the individuality of individuals had been crushed by the State ... .

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Pegasus and the threat of an Orwellian State

Hindustan Times 31 Jul 2021

Russian novelist and critic, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel titled We, imagined a 26th century utopia wherein the individuality of individuals had been crushed by the State ... Zamyatin said the novel was “a warning against the twofold danger which threatens humanity, the hypertrophic power of the machines and the hypertrophic power of the state”.

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The Prophet of Dystopia at Rest: Margaret Atwood in Cuba

Quillette 02 Jul 2021

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. ~Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale ... Frankly, the file is thin ... It is an interesting footnote, no more ... She also writes this. ... Martí ... Not much bravery is required—at least, nothing like that mustered by precursors like Yevgeny Zamyatin or George Orwell, who is one of her favourite authors.

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Intro To Book 'We' By Yevgeny Zamyatin A Recommended Read

Bitchute 05 Jun 2021

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WE - BY YEVGENY ZAMYATIN - 1924

Bitchute 20 Jan 2021

https.//www.gutenberg.org/files/61963/61963-h/61963-h.htm https.//archive.org/details/Wes-sweggy .

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Books in brief: Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder told in detailed account

The Irish Times 16 Jan 2021

A Dream of Death. By Ralph Riegel. Gill, €16.99 ... The case still remains unresolved ... This tragic story of multiple losses, with no winners, is told in a readable, detailed and balanced manner. – Brian Maye. The Awakening. A History of the Western Mind AD 500-1700 ... Head of Zeus ... We. By Yevgeny Zamyatin, tr ... We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a seminal dystopian classic.

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The Heretical Impulse: Zamyatin and Orwell

Quillette 02 Dec 2020

In a 1931 letter to Joseph Stalin, Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin adopted a respectful tone by way of introduction ... Zamyatin’s revolt against Stalin occurred in the midst of dekulakization—the mass execution and deportation of millions of “wealthy” peasants—during the first Five Year Plan ... The same might be said about Yevgeny Zamyatin.

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Science fiction: Fast forward into a universal future

The Irish Times 10 Nov 2020

the journey outward, away from Earth ... Setting a book about the encroachment of freedoms by government in contemporary America will just see readers scanning the pages for references to Donald Trump, his enablers and hangers-on; but by making up a new world, as Yevgeny Zamyatin did in We, we get to see the worldwide application of it that says ... .

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Margaret Atwood’s guide to turning dark histories into fictional futures

The Los Angeles Times 09 Oct 2020

On the Shelf. The Testaments. By Margaret Atwood. Anchor. 448 pages, $16.95 ... Her humor is dry, her perspective vast ... Advertisement. Well, you know, read some memoirs of people ... But I’m not surprised she did that because it’s the same thing that Orwell was doing in “1984.” It is the same thing that [Yevgeny] Zamyatin was doing in his novel, “We,” in 1923 ... 3.

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“Totalitarian” Anti-Communism: Loaded Language Straight Out of CIA, Neo-Con Playbook

Dissident Voice 09 Oct 2020

ORIENTATION. Forms of language manipulation. As most of us know, verbal language is both a tool and a weapon. Verbal language allows our species to talk about the past and the future ... But language can also be used to control and manipulate ... Orwell drew from and was influenced by the book We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, a soviet novelist, in his writing of 1984.