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For a feeling of what the early Soviet Union was like, I highly recommend We the Living by Ayn Rand. If you don't like her politics, I still recommend it to un
by btilly 8y ago
For a feeling of what the early Soviet Union was like, I highly recommend We the Living by Ayn Rand. If you don't like her politics, I still recommend it to understand exactly what it was that she is reacting against.
That book is not exactly autobiographical. But she does draw very heavily on her own personal experiences to draw that time and place as accurately as she could. For example the purge that ended Kira's university education was not made up, and indeed would have ended Ayn Rand's career if she had been one year younger.
- Wildgoose 8y agoYou're being down-voted for no good reason. If you want to understand what drove Ayn Rand to the extremes then "We the Living" is probably the best explanation there is.
- _chiliconcarne 8y agoscrumper is being down-voted because no one here has ever lived under a socialist/communist regime. I know what they're going to say, that wasn't real socialism/communism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Too bad it isn't their lives which are being affected every time there's an attempt to try socialism/communism. They support it from the comfort of their non-socialist/communist country.