Ayn Rand as a Russian woman writer in emigration?

[Elizabeth Blake]

Dear Melissa,

I wrote on her Russian background in relation to her film studies (http://www.germano-slavica.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/Germano-Slavica/article/viewArticle/18) and to her novel, We the Living ("Petrograd in We
the Livingby Ayn Rand: A City on the Threshold of Red Russia." InRussia and the USA: Forms of Literary Dialogue, edited by M. M.
Odesskaia.  Moscow: Russian State
Humanities University, 2000).  You could browse the bibliographies for the information you seek.  Also, while presenting on this some years ago at AATSEEL, I was told that the Ayn Rand Institute has unpublished correspondence with her family in Russia.  I will be at AATSEEL in Chicago next week if you want to chat about my past research and contact with others working on her oeuvre.

Best regards,
Elizabeth Blake
(Also not an Objectivist.)


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Dear SEELANGERS: 

I am definitely NOT a Randian Objectivist, but through a variety of circumstances, I have becoming fascinated by the writer's Russian Jewish background as a formative factor in her fictional works, and am wondering about critical writings on the subject. I am familiar with the two studies "Ayn Rand, the Russian Radical," and the recent biography, "Ayn Rand and the World She Made."

Is anyone aware of recent studies of the writer in Russia today, or others currently exploring the topic?

Thanks for any responses on or off line, and Happy New Year!

Melissa Smith
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