"WE THE LIVING" BY AYN RAND AS A NOVEL ABOUT SOVIET RUSSIA
The article considers historical context elements in Ayn Rand’s first novel We the Living. Russian-born, she emigrated to the USA a few years after the revolution. The invented plot of We the Living is set against the background of real life events in post-revolutionary Russia, which makes it possible to identify the documentary aspect of the novel. However, A.Rand’s description is not a reportorial recording but emotional evaluation of what was happening in those days. Thus, real historical events of the most contradictory period in Russia’s latest history are presented through the vision of an ideological opponent of the Soviet state.