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Early life
Ayn Rand's novels often had political messages, such as laissez faire capitalism with minimum government intervention (known by the name Minarchism) in business. Ayn Rand strongly objected to socialism and nationalism. Combined, more than twelve million copies of her two best-known novels have been sold in the U.S. alone. Despite her anti-[[Christian]] and liberal views on social issues, her opposition to state economic intervention has made her works and philosophy popular with the [[TEA Party]] movement.<ref>''Ayn Rand stars at Denver stimulus ‘tea party’ protest'', Colorado Independent, Wendy Norris - 2/28/09 - [http://coloradoindependent.com/23026/ayn-rand-stars-at-denver-stimulus-tea-party-protest]</ref>
Ayn Rand's novels often had political messages, such as laissez faire capitalism with minimum government intervention (known by the name Minarchism) in business. Ayn Rand strongly objected to socialism and nationalism. Combined, more than twelve million copies of her two best-known novels have been sold in the U.S. alone. Despite her anti-[[Christian]] and liberal views on social issues, her opposition to state economic intervention has made her works and philosophy popular with the [[TEA Party]] movement.<ref>''Ayn Rand stars at Denver stimulus ‘tea party’ protest'', Colorado Independent, Wendy Norris - 2/28/09 - [http://coloradoindependent.com/23026/ayn-rand-stars-at-denver-stimulus-tea-party-protest]</ref>
Her first name "Ayn" rhymes with "mine", and she was born in Russia as '''Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum.'''
==Early life==
Ayn Rand was born on February 2, 1905 in Saint Petersburg Russia. Her first name "Ayn" rhymes with "mine", and she was born as '''Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum.''' She was the first of three daughters to her parents Zinovy Zakharovich Rosenbaum and Anna Borisovna.
During the Bolshevik revolution, her family saw everything it had confiscated and they fled the country. They returned home after the revolution, the city having been renamed to Petrograd. As a young adult she enrolled in Petrograd University, where she studied the works of Aristotle, Plato, and Nietzsche. Her first published work was an essay about Pola Negri, a polish actress.
==Philosophy==
==Philosophy==