Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [254]
AS Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
AR Ayn Rand (Jeff Britting)
AR: SOL Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, book (Michael Paxton)
AR: SOL DVD Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, DVD (Michael Paxton)
BBTBI Barbara Branden taped biographical interviews, 1960-61
EOA Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” (Robert Mayhew, ed.)
EOTF Essays on Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” (Robert Mayhew, ed.)
EOWTL Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” (Robert Mayhew, ed.)
FTNI For the New Intellectual (Ayn Rand)
JD Judgment Day (Nathaniel Branden)
JOAR Journals of Ayn Rand (David Harriman, ed.)
LOAR The Letters of Ayn Rand (Michael S. Berliner, ed.)
LOC Library of Congress
MYWAR My Years with Ayn Rand (Nathaniel Branden)
NYP New York Post
NYT New York Times
RPJ Rand’s private journals from 1967 to 1968, as quoted in The Passion of Ayn Rand’s Critics (James Valliant)
TEAR The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction (Leonard Peikoff, ed.)
TF The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
TON The Objectivist Newsletter
TPOAR The Passion of Ayn Rand (Barbara Branden)
TPOARC The Passion of Ayn Rand’s Critics (James Valliant)
TVOS The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism (Ayn Rand)
VOR The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (Ayn Rand)
WIAR Who Is Ayn Rand? (Barbara and Nathaniel Branden)
WTL We the Living (Ayn Rand)
NOTES
ONE: BEFORE THE
REVOLUTION: 1905–1917
If a life can have a theme song: From a four-page biographical sketch that AR wrote at age thirty-one in 1936 to promote the British edition of WTL (Michael Paxton, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life [Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 1998], pp. 17-18).
“My philosophy, in essence”: “About the Author,” in Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (New York: Plume, 1999), p. 1070.
the brief but bloody uprising: Bruce W. Lincoln, 1n War’s Dark Shadow:The Russians Before the Great War (New York: Dial Press, 1983), p. 290.
The slaughter gave rise to days of rioting: Orlando Figes, A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), pp. 173-80.
Rand’s parents, who: Anna and Zinovy Rosenbaum were married on April 20 (May 3, new calendar), 1904, in the St. Petersburg Choral Synagogue; synagogue register of marriages of merchants, Central State Historic Archive of St. Petersburg, file 386, fond 422, inventory 3.
“The Russian Revolution has begun”: A People’s Tragedy, p. 179.
Jews were ready-made scapegoats: A People’s Tragedy, pp. 80-81.
this period brought the worst anti-Semitic violence: Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (New York: Harper Perennial, 1987, 1988), pp. 364-65.
The czar’s police: A People’s Tragedy, p. 197.
By 1914, the statutes circumscribing Jewish activities: History of the Jews, pp. 359-60.
made up no more than 2 percent of the city’s population: In 1910, 35,000 registered Jews lived in St. Petersburg (Solomon Volkov, St. Petersburg: A Cultural History [New York: The Free Press, 1995], p. 183).
subject to police searches at all times: Mikhail Beizer, The Jews of St. Petersburg (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1989), pp. 6-8; Stacy Schiff, Vera: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov (New York: Random House, 1999), pp. 20-21.
one of the professions: Jews of St. Petersburg, p. 61.
her sister Natasha: Natasha was 5 also known as Natalia, which is the way she is listed in the archives of the Crimean school both she and AR attended from 1918–21.
faced Znamenskaya Square: This is now called Vosstaniya Square (Jeff Britting, Ayn Rand: [New York: The Overlook Press, 2004], p. 3).
named Isaac Guzarchik: Scott McConnell, “Recollections of Ayn Rand I,” speech delivered at the Oslo Objectivist Conference, Oslo, October 18, 2003; Scott McConnell, 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand (Irvine, Calif.: ARI Press), in-5 terviews with AR’s sister NR in 1997 and 1998 (NR died in 1999), 5 pp. 13–14.
There the family lived: McConnell, “Recollections of Ayn Rand I,” based on interviews with AR’s sister NR. 5
unreasonably treated in such 5 matters: Michael S. Berliner, “Ayn Rand in Russia,” lecture at the