¹⁹ “a rather weak and episodic plot” – Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness”, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 14.

²⁰ “machine-equal” – Zamyatin, We, p. 158. Замятин Е. Мы. – М.: АСТ, 2018.

²¹ “Because reason should win” – Ibid., p. 203.

²² “one of the literary curiosities” – Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness”, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 13.

²³ “Perhaps the most interesting” – Yevgeny Zamyatin, “Autobiography” (1922), in Soviet Heretic, p. 4. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.

²⁴ “Gogol was a friend” – Zamyatin, “Autobiography” (1924), in Soviet Heretic, p. 5.

²⁵ “He also finished” – Zamyatin, “Autobiography” (1929), in Soviet Heretic, p. 9.

²⁶ “an eternal rebel” – Gleb Struve, 25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature (1918–1943) (George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1944), p. 22.

²⁷ “In those years” – Zamyatin, “Autobiography” (1929), in Soviet Heretic, p. 10. Замятин Е. Собрание со чин ений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.

²⁸ “If I have any place” – Zamyatin, “Autobiography” (1922), in Soviet Heretic, p. 4.

²⁹ “When the smoke” – Zamyatin, “Moscow – Petersburg” (1933), in Soviet Heretic, p. 144. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.

³⁰ “Yesterday, the thesis” – Zamyatin, “Tomorrow” (1919), in Soviet Heretic, p. 51.

³¹ “Eternal dissatisfaction” – Ibid.

³² “works only for the distant future” – Zamyatin, “Scythians?” (1918), in Soviet Heretic, p. 22. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.

³³ “a kind of unofficial minister” – Zamyatin, “Maxim Gorky” (1936), in Soviet Heretic, p. 250. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 3. Лица. – М.: Русская книга, 2004.

³⁴ “The writer who cannot” – Zamyatin, “I Am Afraid” (1921), in Soviet Heretic, p. 57. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 3. Лица. – М.: Русская книга, 2004.

³⁵ “You really do have to be an acrobat” – Quoted in Martin Amis, Koba the Dread (Vintage, 2003), p. 168.

³⁶ “True literature” – Zamyatin, “I Am Afraid” (1921), in Soviet Heretic, p. 57. Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 3. Лица. – М.: Русская книга, 2004.

³⁷ “amenable, quick-witted” – Martha Weitzel Hickey, The Writer in Petrograd and the House of Arts (Northwestern University Press, 2009), p. 137.

³⁸ “mechanical, chemical” – Zamyatin, “H. G. Wells” (1922), in Soviet Heretic, p. 259. «Замятин Е. Собрание сочинений: В 5 т. Т. 4. Беседы еретика. – М.: Дмитрий Сечин, Республика, 2010.