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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com12THE EDUCATION OF AYN RAND, 1905–1943and daring warriors. Drawn into an imaginary universe of her own creationshe began composing her own dramatic stories, often sitting in theback of her classroom writing instead of attending to the lessons.Alisa’s most enthusiastic audience for these early stories were her twosisters. Nora, the youngest, shared her introversion and artistic inclinations.Her specialty was witty caricatures of her family that blendedman and beast. Alisa and Nora were inseparable, calling themselvesDact I and Dact II, after the winged dinosaurs of Arthur Conan Doyle’sfantastic adventure story The Lost World. 8 The middle sister, Natasha, askilled pianist, was outgoing and social. Both Nora and Natasha shareda keen appreciation for their elder sister’s creativity, and at bedtime Alisaregaled them with her latest tales.As the turmoil of Russia’s revolutionary years closed in around theRosenbaums, the family was forced to forgo the luxuries that had markedAlisa’s childhood. Trips abroad and summer vacations receded into thedistant past. Watching the disintegration of St. Petersburg, now renamedPetrograd, Anna convinced Zinovy they must relocate to Crimea. There, inczarist territory, he was able to open another shop, and the family’s situationstabilized briefly. Alisa, entering her teenage years, enrolled at the localschool, where her superior city education made her an immediate star.But Crimea was a short-lived refuge. Red and White Russians battledfor control of the region, and the chaos spilled into Yevpatoria, wherethe Rosenbaums lived. Communist soldiers rampaged through thetown, once again robbing Zinovy. Piece by piece the family sold Anna’sjewelry. Like a good peasant daughter, Alisa was put to work. She took ajob teaching soldiers how to read.In the middle of these bleak years Alisa unexpectedly broke throughto her distant father. The connection was politics. Although forbiddento read the newspapers or talk about politics, she had followed thenews of the Revolution with great interest. When Zinovy announcedhis departure for a political meeting one evening, Alisa boldly asked toaccompany him. Surprised yet pleased, Zinovy agreed to take her, andafterward the two had their first real conversation. He listened to Alisarespectfully and offered his own opinions.Zinovy was an anti-Communist and, as the mature Rand phrased it,“pro-individualist.” So was she. In her adventure stories heroic resistersstruggling against the Soviet regime now replaced knights and