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This article appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Vol. 1, No. 1): 1-26. For an introductory essay on how Chris Matthew Sciabarra discovered Ayn Rand's college transcript from the University of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, see his article in the October 1999 issue of Liberty. For reviews of this particular historical discussion, see essays by Scott Ryan and William Thomas. (This article also cited by Don Parrish in his fascinating survey of "Ayn Rand Sites in Saint Petersburg.") See also "In Search of the Rand Transcript", "The Rand Transcript, Revisited", and "The Rand Transcript Revealed".
THE RAND TRANSCRIPT
By Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Abstract: This essay discusses the major historical
significance of the discovery and investigation of Ayn Rand's transcript from
the University of St. Petersburg. The document provides evidence of Rand's study
with some of the finest Russian scholars of the period, and helps to resolve
certain paradoxes concerning Rand's relationship to the philosopher, N. O.
Lossky. It also contributes to our understanding of those methods and ideas that
may have influenced Rand's intellectual development.
This article is
no longer available on this site; it is reprinted in the second expanded edition
of Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical.
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