1. Yevgeny Zamyatin & We
Emily Trudeau

2. From country mouse
to city mouse
1902

3. The Revolutionary
Zamyatin was an old guard Bolshevik, who was twice exiled and once
arrested for his revolutionary incitement.

4. Left: Maxim Gorky, the archetype of the ideal Soviet writer
Right; Zamyatin, the rebellious, independent Russian author

5. Nous
We
мы

6. Communism & the Collective

9. Logic and Reason
Prevail
L = f (D)
“Love is the function
of death.”
- We, 127

10. Frederick Taylor
1856-1915

11. In We, Taylor’s Scientific Management Theory extends to all
aspects of life

12. The Home of the Future?

14. Above: H.G. Wells
Descending: Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood.

15. Brave New World

16. The masses in We and Brave New World. Inextricably linked?

17. Industrialization, Taylor, & Ford taken to their Logical Ends.

18. Zamyatin saw Comrade Stalin’s Softer Side

19. We as a Paradigm Shift

20. Zamyatin’s
Precautionary Tale
The End