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Foreword

and most earnest thing I have written. However, the most serious and most interesting novels I never wrote. They happened to me in my life.”

Zamiatin continues to live in Russia and continues to live with Russia, but such is the sarcasm of Fate that the first Russian novel giving a real psychological synthesis of the Russian Revolution and its greater universal meaning, this novel written by Zamiatin, should remain unknown to the Russian people.

Gregory Zilboorg

New York, N.Y.
1924

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