In 1921, Zamyatin’s pupils would form a literary group called the Serapion Brothers, which included the likes of Mikhail Zoshchenko, Lev Lunts, Vsevolod Ivanov, Veniamin Kaverin, Konstantin Fedin, Nikolay Tikhonov, Mikhail Slonimsky, and Viktor Shklovsky. And it was during this time of editing, teaching, and administrative duties that Zamyatin wrote We, most likely from 1920 to late 1921.10
