During Russia's transition to communism in the early 20th century, conflict and unease permeated every part of life. Nothing was stable and very little of what the Bolsheviks had fought for had been achieved when the USSR broke up in 1991. The “classless society,” which was supposed to work together for the prosperity of all, never became a reality. In the end, much of Russia's 20th century was a total failure on a grand scale. However, there have been many outstanding achievements of the system due to the great importance of education in Russian culture. Priceless novels have been written, timeless films have been made, and great scientific endeavors have been achieved despite the strict control imposed on the Russians by the government. Indeed, some of the most memorable written works of the era were written as a protest against the creativity-stifling situation in which many writers found themselves. Because of the danger to their lives if the wrong people were upset by their writings, Yevgeny Zamyatin and Mikhail Bulgakov wrote their most popular novels condemning Soviet life under the guise of satire. Even though they satirize the same topic in Us and The Master and Margarita respectively, they take very different paths to do so. Satire is a literary method of saying one thing by saying something completely different but relatable to the intended audience. satire. In Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, he indirectly criticized the American Red Scare by writing about the historic Salem witch trials. Zamyatin, through his authorship of We, criticized the future of Russia he envisioned due to the changes already made by Lenin and the rest of the early Bolshevik leaders. His prediction for the future was quite accurate; ju......middle of paper......experience the Great Operation! Long live OneState! Long live the Benefactor! OneState's authority begins to decline once Mephi opposes the election, and continues to do so after the subsequent uprising, the explosion of the Green Wall, and then the announcement of the Grand Operations that unhinged the entire society. Many are fleeing the Operation and the Guardians are forcing them to have it. D is forced to have it and later has no problem informing the Benefactor everything he knows about the resistance movement. He then sits calmly through I-330's interrogation, torture, and execution. A state and the USSR expected a level of perfection from its citizens that they could not have achieved if it had not been for their deprivation of “humanity”. One state chose the surgical path and the USSR then took the path of brute force "because reason must win". (Zamjatin 225)