The Englishman from Lebedian: A Life of Evgeny Zamiatin - Ars Rossica

Explores the life and work of Evgeny Zamiatin, whose renown abroad has largely been shaped by his anti-utopian novel We , completed in 1919-20. After his death in 1937, he seemed fated to disappear into obscurity in the West, at the same time as he was being airbrushed out of Soviet literary history at home. George Orwell, together with Professor Gleb Struve, set out to secure Zamiatin's reputation after the Second World War.