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The Rand Transcript Revealed
- Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 21, Number 2, December 2021
- pp. 141-229
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
In this essay, the authors analyze and interpret facsimiles of important original documents—published here for the first time—that are deeply relevant to the education of the young Ayn Rand at the University of Petrograd. This definitive reading of source material provides significant documentation of Rand’s courses, teachers, and textbooks—and what she might have learned from them. Other original source materials are revealed to advance further investigations of this key period in Rand’s life. Recent commentary on Rand’s education in Gary H. Merrill’s book, False Wisdom, is also considered.