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We has often been discussed as a political satire aimed at the police state which Zamyatin perceived in the Soviet Union.

There are many other dimensions, however.

It may variously be examined as ( 1 ) a polemic against the optimistic scientific socialism of H. G. Wells whose works Zamyatin had previously published and with the heroic verses of the ( Russian ) Proletarian Poets, ( 2 ) as an example of Expressionist theory and ( 3 ) as an illustration of the archetype theories of Carl Jung as applied to literature.

George Orwell believed that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) must be partly derived from We.

However, in a 1962 letter to Christopher Collins, Huxley says that he wrote Brave New World as a reaction to H. G.

Wells ' utopias long before he had heard of We.

Kurt Vonnegut said that in writing Player Piano ( 1952 ) he " cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We.

" In 1994, We received a Prometheus Award in the " Hall of Fame " category.