In Soviet Russia after the revolution, Kira Argounova fights to survive and stay true to herself while caught between a doomed aristocrat lover and the idealistic Communist officer who loves her.
Books mentioned in We the Living (1)
The ABC of Communism by Nikolai Bukharin and Evgeni Preobrazhensky: “She had copied her thesis, barely changing the words, from the "ABC of Communism," a book whose study was compulsory in every school in the country.”
Books that mention We the Living (1)
The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand: “In We the Living, I had a lot of journalistic references: specific dates, the Lenin-Trotsky split, and so forth.”