Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical is a 1995 book by Chris Matthew Sciabarra tracing the intellectual roots of 20th-century Russian-American novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand and the philosophy she developed, Objectivism. The book is the second volume in a trilogy on dialectics and libertarianism. The Russian Radical explores Rand's college influences and intellectual roots—particularly the role of Rand's philosophy teacher, Nicholas Onufrievich Lossky—and argues that Rand's philosophical method was dialectical in nature. Source: Wikipedia (en)