USSR
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At last someone has got it right: the ‘Dark Middle Ages’ never existed, they are still in the future. What serves us in the present as a projection screen for our modern fears and desires – an age of filth, violence, stupidity and barbarism – is relocated to a planet outside the solar system in
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It is the first book to be officially banned in the Soviet Union. Three years previously, Zamyatin had fought on the side of the Bolsheviks in the February and October Revolutions and was considered a harsh critic of the Russian Empire, but the horrors of the revolution soon dashed all illusions of a better future.
Dennis Biba 