LLC - For an interesting view on Communism, you should read Ayn Rand's We The Living. All about a Russian family immediately after the Revolution and the subsequent changes in government. It was Rand's first book and her philosophy was just beginning to emerge. Although it's fiction, Rand did live in Russia at that time, so much of it is autobiographical. Rand recreated the same characters over and over again in her books, and it's interesting to see Irina as the early version of Dagny Taggart of Atlas Shrugged. However, since this was her first book, Irina is more human, more accessible.