Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin. One of the first Russian intellectuals disillusioned by the authoritarian course of the 1917 Revolution was Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1887-1934), a naval engineer—designer of icebreakers—who loved both science and literature equally. In 1905 he joined the Bolsheviks but never played a significant political role, a discretion that allowed him to emigrate to Czechoslovakia (1932) and from there to France, where he died in Paris. The essence of his revolutionary disenchantment was captured in We (1921), one of the greatest dystopian novels in history, which presents a future society dominated by scientism and completely dehumanized.