Yevgeny Zamyatin 
We 

First published in the West in 1924, the classic ‘We’ is an adventurous story of the two-tenths of the world’s population that survive the Great Two Hundred Years War and become lulled into living in a totalitarian regime. Almost a century later, ‘We’ remains a strange and telling tragicomedy. The author, an acknowledged satirist in his own right, set the stage for Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984.