On arrival at Ellis Island, she changed into Ayn (after a name of some Finnish author, probably 'Aino') Rand (a supposed abbreviation of her Russian surname). With money from the sale of jewelry of her mother, Alisa bought a ticket to New York.

Alisa returned to the city, renamed Leningrad, to attend the university, but relatives already settled in America and in 1926 offered her the chance of joining them. When the Bolsheviks requisitioned the pharmacy that Fronz Rosenbaum, her father, owned, the family fled to the Crimea. Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianism.Īlisa Rosenbaum entered into a prosperous Jewish family before Russian revolution. 'I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.' He had rediscovered the lost and holy word-I. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: He had stood forth from the mindless human herd. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. In a loveless world, he dared to love the woman of his choice. In all that was left of humanity, there was only one man who dared to think, seek, and love.

From cradle to grave, the crowd was one-the great WE. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. Anthem is Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dystopian future of the great 'We'-a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence-that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

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