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Wikipedia We is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which assists mass surveillance. The structure of the state is Panopticon-like, and life is scientifically managed F. W. Taylor-style. People march in step with each other and are uniformed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by logic or reason as the primary justification for the laws or the construct of the society. The individual's behavior is based on logic by way of formulas and equations outlined by the One State. We is a dystopian novel completed in 1921. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond and work in the Tyne shipyards at nearby Wallsend during the First World War. It was at Tyneside that he observed the rationalization of labor on a large scale.

subjects: Literature: Texts,  Untranslated Fiction - General,  Literature - Classics / Criticism,  Literary Criticism,  Russian & Former Soviet Union,  Fiction, science fiction, general,  Fiction, dystopian,  Classic Literature,  Fiction,  Science Fiction,  Political fiction,  Dystopias,  Russian fiction,  Russian prose,  totalitarianism,  Russian satire,  dystopia,  Russian language materials,  Authoritarianism,  Modern fiction,  Russian Novel And Short Story,  Literary,  Fiction / Literary,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Corrupt practices,  Political science,  Electronic surveillance,  Criticism and interpretation,  Fiction, general,  Soviet union, fiction,  Biography,  My (Zami︠a︡tin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich),  Science fiction, Russian,  Russian Science fiction,  Group identity,  Pg3476.z34 m913 1983,  Russian fiction--20th century,  Satire, russian,  Totalitarianism and literature,  Pg3476.z34 m913 2006,  891.73/42,  Fiction, romance, general,  Translations into English,  Utopias,  Dystopias - Fiction

People: Evgeniĭ Ivanovich Zami︠a︡tin (1884-1937),  Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Places: Soviet Union,  Wallsend,  Tyneside

Times: Early 20th century,  20th century