TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weinacht,Aaron
TI  - Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian nihilism travels to America 
T2  - Politics, literature, and film
SN  - 9781793634771 (hbk)
AV  - PS3535 .A547 W423 2021
U1  - 813/.52 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Rand, Ayn.
KW  - Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich,
KW  - Rand, Ayn
KW  - Nihilism in literature
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Objectivism (Philosophy)
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America argues that the core commitments of the 1860's nihilism made their way to 20th century America via the thought of Ayn Rand. Nikolai Chernyshevskii's What is to Be Done? (1863) and Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957) identify similar problems; identical theses propose to solve those problems"--
ER  -