Biographical Strategies

I believe Yevgeny Zamatin based We off of what was happening in his life.  You could somewhat compare him to D-503.  While they both had different jobs, their jobs both focused a lot with numbers.  D-503 was a mathmatician, while Zamatin was an engineer.  You could also compare One State to what was happening in Russia during the early 1920's.  One State is the perfect utopia where no one is different and Russia was "entering into a singlular Bolshevik utopian rigor mortis" (Zamatin, xi).  The One State is what Russia was aiming for.  Without these events happening in Zamatin's life this story may have been different or maybe not have even been written.