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Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, her father’s shop was confiscated by communist authorities, an event she deeply resented. After being tutored at home, Alissa Rosenbaum, the eldest of three children, was enrolled in a progressive school, where she excelled academically but was socially isolated. Her father, Zinovy Rosenbaum, was a prosperous pharmacist. Petersburg, Russia-died March 6, 1982, New York, New York, U.S.), Russian-born American writer whose commercially successful novels promoting individualism and laissez-faire capitalism were influential among conservatives and libertarians and popular among generations of young people in the United States from the mid-20th century. At the time, she had been working on a television adaptation of her novel Atlas Shrugged.Īyn Rand, original name Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, (born February 2, 1905, St. Rand died of heart failure on March 6, 1982, in New York City. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them!