The Rand Transcript Revealed

CHRIS MATTHEW SCIABARRA, website: http://www.chrismatthewsciabarra.com, blog: http://notablog.net, received his PhD, with distinction, in political theory, philosophy, and methodology from New York University. He is the author of the “Dialectics and Liberty Trilogy,” which includes Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (1995), Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (1995; expanded second edition, 2013), and Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (2000). He is also co-editor, with Mimi Reisel Gladstein, of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (1999), co-editor, with Roger E. Bissell and Edward W. Younkins, of The Dialectics of Liberty: Exploring the Context of Human Freedom (2019), and a founding co-editor of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (1999–present).

PAVEL SOLOVYEV is a scholar currently living in Europe. He received a PhD in organic chemistry in 2009 from Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology and has worked as an analytical chemist for over fifteen years. He has published several academic papers and reviews in his field, but also in the history of science (for example, on the history of organic chemistry in Russian universities [https://doi.org/10.1134/S1070428017090019] and the first English version of the biography of Italian chemist Pietro Biginelli [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Biginelli]). Apart from the main occupation, his hobby is history and genealogy, and he has over ten years of experience with online and offline Russian and foreign archives. In 2009–14, he was also involved in the research and maintenance of a museum exposition in his alma mater.