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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.
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.
This early experience is reflected in Rand's first novel, "We The Living" whose protagonist is also a Russian girl whose family fled the revolution and returned to the renamed Petrograd and who then goes to university there. Rand herself said that "We The Living" was the closest she would ever come to writing an autobiography- though many of the book's details are fictional. Particularly, the book's protagonist is depicted as having an intensive love affair with a Communist who took an active part in the Revolution and who - surprisingly for a Rand book - is depicted as a positive and honorable character. Rand is not known to have had such a relationship in real life.
==Philosophy==
==Philosophy==