Ayn Rand and the World She Made - Anne C. Heller [262]
expected to “be against” Aristotle: BBTBI.
She also studied political economy: Chris Matthew Sciabarra, “The AR Transcript, Revisited,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Fall 2005, pp. 4–14, based on research provided by the author.
introduction to the Declaration of Independence: Robert Mayhew, Ayn Rand and “Song of Russia”: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2005), p. 72.
America’s constitutional guarantee: AR, p. 18.
“I cried my eyes out”: TPOAR, p. 36.
learned the play by heart: Shoshana Milgram, “Three Inspirations for the Ideal Man,” EOTF, p. 189.
caused her mother to complain: “Ayn Rand’s Life.”
This was in the late spring of 1921: AR graduated from secondary school on June 30, 1921 (Petrograd State University Archives, fond 7240, inventory 5, file 3576; personal file of the student A. Z. Rosenbaum.
loaded everybody into French and British ships: Red Victory, pp. 448–49.
set sail from the docks at Yevpatoria: Red Victory, pp. 448–49.
he promised, they would reclaim their business: TPOAR, p. 38.
mock trials, burnings, and hangings: TPOAR, p. 37.
one classmate’s father was summarily and publicly shot: TPOAR, p. 37.
five billion of these rubles: To the Bolsheviks, the disappearance of money was a sign that the social order was nearing full Communism (Steve H. Hanke, Lars Jonung, and Kurt Schuler, Russian Currency and Finance [New York: Routledge, 1993]).
“first adult novel”: “An Illustrated Life.”
Rand admired feudalism: “An Illustrated Life.”
By age thirty: “An Illustrated Life.”
gifted at teaching: TPOAR, p. 38.
they had lost their gamble: AR’s grandmother, Rozalia Pavlovna Kaplan, may have died at about this time, since AR’s grandfather Berko Itskovitch Kaplan was the only grandparent listed in official documents as a member of the Rosenbaum household after their return to St. Petersburg. What happened to the Rosenbaum and Kaplan uncles, aunts, and cousins who remained in Brest-Litovsk is unknown, but, as Germany temporarily acquired most of the Russian Pale by virtue of the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, they may have become German citizens and perished in the Holocaust.
There’s no better description: In 1960–61, AR told BB, “And then we started back for Petrograd, and the way we traveled was exactly described in We the Living…. I mean the conditions and the trains and the bundles” (EOWTL, p. 50).
The audience for her plays and stories would be immense: Shoshana Milgram, “Ayn Rand as a Public Speaker: A Philosopher Who Lived on Earth,” Objectivist Conference, Boston, July 7, 2006.
smaller by two-thirds: Ida Mett, The Kronstadt Commune, ch. 2, and A History of the Russian Civil War, pp. 466, 493–94.
inhabited by a sign painter: AR, p. 20; EOWTL, p. 49.
Zinovy obtained a position in a cooperative pharmacy: AR, p. 20.
“wouldn’t do anything”: EOWTL, p. 57.
She began to refer to her husband: TPOAR, p. 135.
traveled the city by tram: It appears that Anna Rosenbaum had to prove to Petrograd State University administrators that she was capable of supporting her daughter before AR could be admitted (the Central Historic Archive of St. Petersburg, fond 7240, inventory 5, file 3576).
earning much-needed money: EOWTL, p. 76; “AR in Russia.”
Anna marveled at her daughter’s ability to choose: EOWTL, p. 76.
“You and I have our love of work in common”: “AR in Russia.”
Zinovy was placed in charge of keeping house: McConnell, “Recollections of AR I.”
This division combined the old disciplines: The Russian Radical, pp. 75–76, and “The Ayn Rand Transcript,” pp. 3–19.
She declared a major in history: Petrograd State University Archives, fond 7240, inventory 5, file 3576; personal file of the student A. Z. Rosenbaum.
She took ancient, medieval, Western, and Russian history: “The Ayn Rand Transcript,” pp. 10–19.
She read Hegel and Marx: Nathaniel Branden, Judgment Day (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989), p. 88.
He “gives me the feeling”: Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto, p. 43.
a decree was issued: “Novelist Tells of Russia in