DBWI: Ayn Rand leaves the USSR

[black angel]

In 1924 Ayn Rand was among a number of "bourgeois" students purged from Petrograd State University, so what if rather than driving her to spend the rest of her life to prove she was a good communist leading to those epic and popular novels of Stalinism, The Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged, she felt rejected by the USSR and left for the US, would her novels be about say Trotskyism? would Stalinism be 100% dead with out Rand fans?

[Wendell]

I suspect that she might have joined the nascent Zionist movement.

[JoeMulk]

maybe out of a desire for revenge she would reject communism entirely. Who knows how sincere her soviet screeds really were?

[Wendell]

Originally Posted by JoeMulk

maybe out of a desire for revenge she would reject communism entirely. Who knows how sincere her soviet screeds really were?

It's a fair point. Still, the way she villified the enemies of her Soviet Man hero archetypes suggests some level of sincerity. The ways in which she bridges Sovietism with the philosophy of Nietzsche could only have been the product of a true believer.

[JoeMulk]

Originally Posted by Wendell

It's a fair point. Still, the way she villified the enemies of her Soviet Man hero archetypes suggests some level of sincerity. The ways in which she bridges Sovietism with the philosophy of Nietzsche could only have been the product of a true believer.

good point, imagine what impact it might have had on the US had that kind of thinking taken off here and she had started promoting it.

[Fabilius]

Is this the writer Chomsky put on his list of people that should have won the nobel in literature but didn´t?

Imigrating to US from Russia, was that easy or difficult. Her becoming an established author in US sounds sort of ASB, I mean Nabokov pulled it off, but still Russian and not English is her mothertongue.