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Critical Essays on Ayn Rand's "We the Living": With a 200 page annotated bibliography, a glossary of Soviet terms, and a 1000 entry index

Critical Essays on Ayn Rand's "We the Living": With a 200 page annotated bibliography, a glossary of Soviet terms, and a 1000 entry index

Gurgen, Emre

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $50.99

ISBN13: 9798823049115
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Dec 30 2025
Pages: 600
Weight: 2.13
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Critical Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living by Emre Gurgen: shows readers, in human-and-particular terms, how Communism degrades the lives of middle-class Russians, living in Saint Petersburg, Russia in the 1920's.

It does this by analyzing how characters are forced to engage in hypocritical, after-hours, social activities, where they must donate their free labor to the State as a socialist duty (otherwise they are fired); how characters, like Kira and Leo, are subject to the jurisdiction of revolutionary people's courts of class justice, not objective justice, as shown when the State illegally moves a tenant named Marina Lavrova into their apartment. Additionally, Gurgen's book also examines how characters, like Andrei Taganov, suffer party purges; how other characters, like Sasha and Irina, are condemned to the vast gulag system; how people routinely spy on each other in order to trade information to the state for some kind of reward; how the novel's Soviet government nationalizes character's businesses, seizes character's bank accounts, and breaks into and empties character's safety deposit boxes; how the book's socialist State makes Russians queue-up in endless bread-lines for rotten food that is always in short supply; how the book's centralized State deprives people of their privacy rights, even in their own homes; and, lastly, how the story's Marxists make characters, like Vava Milovskaia and Sonia Presniakova, raise their children in state-run day nurseries - like the Young Pioneers - since, the family is an institution of the past, according to the book's many Marxists.

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