Ayn Rand and Song of Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood (Softcover) Leonard Peikoff

Ayn Rand and Song of Russia: Communism and Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood (Softcover) Leonard PeikoffBy Robert Mayhew In October 1947, more than twenty years after leaving Russia, Ayn Rand testified before the House Un American Activities Committee (HUAC), which was investigating communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. The focus of that testimony was Song of Russia, a 1944 pro Soviet film that Rand decried for its unrealistic, absurdly flattering portrait of life in the communist country. Ayn Rand scholar Robert Mayhew focuses on this

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In her late teens she kept a journal in which she recorded each movie she saw

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enormously productive career

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and philosophical aspects of Ayn Rand's magnum opus

In this course

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Transcendental Idealism

- Introduction to Calumet "K"