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Critical Essays on Ayn Rand\u2019s We the Living<\/em><\/strong> shows readers, in human-and-particular terms, how Communism degrades the lives of middle-class Russians, living in Saint Petersburg, Russia in the 1920\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does this by analyzing how characters are forced to engage in hypocritical, after-hours, social activities, where they must donate their free labor to the State as a socialist duty (otherwise they are fired); how characters, like Kira and Leo, are subject to the jurisdiction of revolutionary people\u2019s courts of class justice, not objective justice, as shown when the State illegally moves a tenant named Marina Lavrova into their apartment. Additionally, Gurgen\u2019s book also examines how characters, like Andrei Taganov, suffer party purges; how other characters, like Sasha and Irina, are condemned to the vast gulag system; how people routinely spy on each other in order to trade information to the state for some kind of reward; how the novel\u2019s Soviet government nationalizes character\u2019s businesses, seizes character\u2019s bank accounts, and breaks into and empties character\u2019s safety deposit boxes; how the book\u2019s socialist State makes Russians queue-up in endless bread-lines for rotten food that is always in short supply; how the book\u2019s centralized State deprives people of their privacy rights, even in their own homes; and, lastly, how the story\u2019s Marxists make characters, like Vava Milovskaia and Sonia Presniakova, raise their children in state-run day nurseries \u2013 like the Young Pioneers \u2013 since, the family is an institution of the past, according to the book\u2019s many Marxists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides analyzing these topics, this 511-page book explores many other subjects, as well. Please, read my lengthy introduction, for a complete description.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book also examines, in its\u2019 200-page annotated bibliography, the historical plight of the Ukrainians. By examining how Ukrainian characters are forced to work collective farms, primarily in the \u201cblack earth\u201d regions of Ukraine, so Communists can sell the food they produce to the free West. Especially, ultra-minor Ukrainian characters, most of whom flee to major Russian cities, like Saint Petersburg, to search for food. Since, the Soviets routinely used starvation as a weapon against ethnic Ukrainians by creating artificial man-made famines. It also shows how a character named Irina Dunaeva is fired by the Soviets for not knowing how much coal a mine in the Donetz Basin of Ukraine produces; how a Ukrainian born character named Nester Makhno does not rob Kira\u2019s civilian train, since he is a Ukrainian military commander (in later life) who only fights against the Communists for betraying him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Critical Essays on Ayn Rand\u2019s We the Living shows readers, in human-and-particular terms, how Communism degrades the lives of middle-class Russians, living in Saint Petersburg, Russia in the 1920\u2019s. It does this by analyzing how characters are forced to engage in hypocritical, after-hours, social activities, where they must donate their free labor to the State<\/p>\n

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