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An eerie dystopian prophecy by a disillusioned Bolshevik

Yevgeny Zamyatin’s parable looked forward to climate change and surveillance culture

We. By Yevgeny Zamyatin. Translated by Clarence Brown. Illustrated by Kit Russell. The Folio Society; 240 pages; £36.95.

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