Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand

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<p><span>Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America</span><span> argues that the core commitments of the nihilist movement of the 1860s made their way to 20th century America via the thought of Ayn Rand. While mid-nineteenth-century Russian nihilism has generally been seen as part of a radical tradition that culminated in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the author argues that nihilisms intellectual trajectory was in fact quite different. Analysis of such sources as Nikolai Chernyshevskiis</span><span>What is to Be Done?</span><span> (1863) and Ayn Rands</span><span>Atlas Shrugged</span><span> (1957), archival research in Rands papers, and broad attention to late-nineteenth century Russian intellectual history all lead the author to conclude that nihilisms legacy is deeply implicated in one of Americas most widely-read philosophers of capitalism and libertarian freedom.</span></p><p></p>

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<p><span>Aaron Weinacht is professor of history at the University of Montana Western.</span></p>

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