I suspect fiction that shapes history is generally poor quality (eg Ayn Rand). Good fiction tends to foster acceptance of world as is.
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It absolutely shaped the way people thought about the Soviet Union in the United States
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What did anybody of significance do differently because they'd read the book? Genuinely curious. Did it shape policy directly somehow?
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did Atlas Shrugged? (& don't say CEOs are like that b/c of Rand. Convergent incentives and all that. "Art did it"=always a weak explanation)


