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¹ “I know that I have” – Yevgeny Zamyatin, “Letter to Stalin” (1931), in Soviet Heretic, trans. Mirra Ginsberg (Quartet, 1991), p. 305. Замятин Е. И. Сочинения. – Мюнхен: A. Niemanis Buchvertrieb und Verlag, 1986. Т. 4. С. 310–314.

² “I am interested in that kind of book” – Orwell letter to Gleb Struve, February 17, 1944, CW XVI, 2421, p. 98.

³ “it is not a book of the first order” – Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness”, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 13.

⁴ “partly plagiarised” – Orwell letter to Warburg, November 22, 1948, CW XIX, 3495, p. 471.

⁵ “proves that these ideas” – Alex M. Shane, The Life and Works of Evgenij Zamjatin (University of California Press, 1968), p 140.

⁶ “the idea of 1984” – Isaac Deutscher, “1984– The Mysticism of Cruelty”, in Raymond Williams (ed.), George Orwell: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1974), p. 120.

⁷ “look out for this book” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, January 24, 1947, CW XIX, 3158, p. 26.

⁸ “my most jesting” – Zamyatin, “Autobiography” (1922), in Soviet Heretic, p. 4. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.

⁹ “robs people of individuality” – Zamyatin, “Contemporary Russian Literature” (1918), in Soviet Heretic, p. 44. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.

¹⁰ “the victory of the many” – Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, trans. Natasha Randall (Vintage, 2007), p. 42. Замятин Е. Мы. – М.: АСТ, 2018.

¹¹ “sharp, black, piercing” – Ibid., p. 191.

¹² “festive rockets” – Ibid., p. 193.

¹³ “When you are moving fast” – Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters” (1923), in Soviet Heretic, pp. 111–112. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 3. Лица. – М.: Русская книга, 2004.

¹⁴ “I never explained” – Shane, p. 92.

¹⁵ “mathematically infallible happiness” – Zamyatin, We, p. 3. Замятин Е. Мы. – М.: АСТ, 2018.

¹⁶ “Every station bookstall” – Brian Moynahan, Comrades 1917: Russia in Revolution (Little, Brown, 1992), p. 5.

¹⁷ “like a machine” – Ibid., p. 119.

¹⁸ “ancient sickness” – Ibid., p. 67.