Concept

We the Living

Overview

We the Living is the debut novel of the Russian-born American author Ayn Rand. It is a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and was Rand's first statement against communism. Rand observes in the foreword that We the Living was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography. Rand finished writing the novel in 1934, but it was rejected by several publishers before being released by Macmillan Publishing in 1936. It has since sold more than three million copies.

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Philosophers who discussed We the Living

• Ayn Rand
• Andrew Bernstein (philosopher)

Related ideas

• Macmillan Publishers
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Ayn Rand Institute
• Fascism
• Censorship
• The Fountainhead
• Random House
• Atlas Shrugged
• Benito Mussolini
• Russian Empire
• Saint Petersburg
• Soviet Union
• The New York Times
• Ayn Rand
• Engineer
• Communist Party USA
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Communism
• Russian Americans

Opposing perspectives

• H. L. Mencken

Place in the tradition

Part of Objectivism.

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