We

'''Zamiatin, Yevgeny (variously translated and transliterated). We.''' Written ca. 1920. Available in various trans., including Mirra Ginsburg, trans. New York: Bantam, 1972.

Shows a world in which the "Taylor system" of "scientific" industrial management has been applied to all aspects of life. Along with E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops", G. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and A. Huxley's Brave New World (all cited under Fiction), one of the central dystopias of the first half of the 20th c. See under Background the entry for F. W. Taylor. We is discussed in detail in CW by G. Beauchamp; also handled by A. Aldridge, and passim in other essays (consult CW index); see Beauchamp and Aldridge entries under Literary Criticism, and the article on We by C. Rhodes, "Machine" by M. Rose, and the entries for D. Richards and A. Shane.]

Filmed as WIR, (West) Germany, 1982. Storyline given on IMDb, "Based on novel by Jewgenij Samjatin. 'A vision of a united totalitarian state, a world of quadratic harmony and blue-grey conformity'". See also THE GLASS FORTRESS.