Derek Offord is Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol, UK. His publications include Journeys to a Graveyard: Perceptions of Europe in Classical Russian Travel Writing (2006), Nineteenth-Century Russia: Opposition to Autocracy (1999), and (with W. Leatherbarrow) A Documentary History of Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to Marxism (1987).

Introduction
1. Ayn Rand and her Russian Background
2. Rand and the Russian Intellectual Tradition
3. Rand and Russian Literary Models
4. Ethical, Metaphysical, and Epistemological Questions
5. Politics and Economics
6. Geopolitics
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index