We the Living

<b>Ayn Rand's first published novel a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.</b> <p/> First published in 1936 <i>We the Living</i> portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman's passionate love held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state. <p/> <i>We the Living</i> is not a story of politics but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb? <p/> Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice. <p/> <b>Includes an Introduction and Afterword by Ayn Rand's Philosophical Heir Leonard Peikoff</b>