We

'Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.' Yevgeny Zamaytin's We (1920-21) is often cited as the first dystopian novel and was acknowledged by George Orwell to have inspired both Animal Farm and 1984. We is a powerfully inventive tale that foreshadowed some of the worst oppression perpetrated in Soviet Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom. In a glass-walled world in the twenty-sixth century, the totalitarian OneState is a...