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 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 o...