It is a picture of what dictatorship-of any kind-does to human beings. We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. The specific events of Kira's life were not mine her ideas, her convictions, her values were and are." I was born in Russia, I was educated under the Soviets I have seen the conditions of existence that I describe.
The plot is invented, the background is not. Of this book, Ayn Rand said, "it is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state. We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives.
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