Ain Rand. Nikiforova L.

Perhaps Ain Rand (Alice Rosenbaum) is the most popular English -language writer of Russian origin. She was born in the capital of St. Petersburg, fled to Crimea from revolutionary Petrograd, wrote the first works in Soviet Leningrad, from where she emigrated in the United States, where she became a novelist, a playwright, a film -scan, a philosopher, a culturalist. With its intellectual bestsellers, it influenced the formation of the ideology of the modern capitalist world. They read American presidents and businessmen, they are part of the US educational institutions. Allusias on her works can be found in modern music, books, youth subculture and even a computer game, and her stormy personal life became the plot of the sensational Hollywood film. She hated communism and believed that any country of “free world” has the moral right to attack the USSR, created the philosophy of objectivism and proclaimed selfishness the main virtue of man. Having universal glory, she is almost not known in her homeland. Ain Rand is replenished with this gap - the history of the Jewish Cinderella from Russia, which has become the queen of American intellectual life.