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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com300 NOTES TO PAGES 11–18Russia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 222; Zvi Gitelman, A Century ofAmbivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (Bloomington:Indiana University Press, 2001), 10. According to Anne Heller, the Stoiunin Gymnasiumwas able to circumvent these restrictions, meaning about a third of Alisa’s classmateswere Jewish. Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made (New York: Doubleday,2009), 18.6. Biographical Interview 11.7. Ibid.8. Interview with Nora Drobysheva, Oral History, ARP.9. Biographical Interview 11.10. Ibid.11. Ibid. Alisa’s coolly rational rejection of religion also marked other intellectualsof Jewish origin who later became prominent conservatives or right-wing activists. SeeGeorge H. Nash, “Forgotten Godfathers: Premature Jewish Conservatives and the rise ofNational Review,” American Jewish History 87, nos. 2–3 (1999): 123–57. Nash notes that hissubjects prided themselves on their individuality and independence, which may accountfor their distance from Judaism.12. Ayn Rand, We the Living (1936; New York: Signet, 1959), 44, 26.13. Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, chapter 3.14. AR to Isabel Paterson, May 8, 1948, in Letters of Ayn Rand, ed. Michael S. Berliner(New York: Penguin, 1995), 214. Henceforth cited as Letters.15. In Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, Chris Sciabarra argues that Rand should beconsidered a thinker in the Russian dialectical tradition, an argument that falls outsidethe purview of this work. Sciabarra argues that Rand was influenced by the work ofN. O. Lossky, a prominent dialectical philosopher affiliated with Petrograd (Leningrad)State University, whom she claimed to have studied under. However, evidence connectingher to Lossky remains fragmentary, inconclusive, and contradictory. Sciabarra’s researchhas provided valuable and hitherto unknown details of Rand’s education. His findingsare described in Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical; Sciabarra, “The Rand Transcript,”Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 1, no. 1 (1999): 1–26; Sciabarra, “The Rand Transcript,Revisited,” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 7, no. 1 (2005): 1–17. Sciabarra’s findings suggestinaccuracies in Rand’s recollection of her time at the university, which accordingly mustbe treated with care. My discussion of Rand’s education draws on Sciabarra and Rand,Biographical Interview 6, January 2, 1961.16. Barbara Branden, The Passion of Ayn Rand (New York: Random House, 1986), 45.17. Rand’s movie diary and the two pamphlets have been published in Rand,Russian Writings on Hollywood, ed. Michael S. Berliner (Irvine, CA: Ayn Rand InstitutePress, 1999).18. Ibid., 76.19. Rand, We the Living, 52.20. Preparations for Alisa’s departure are described in Jeff Britting, Ayn Rand(New York: Overlook Press, 2004), 29–33, and multiple letters in the Russian FamilyCorrespondence, ARP.21. Britting, Ayn Rand, 30, 32; Russian Family Correspondence, ARP.