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One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik Revolution

Edmund Wilson''s To the Finland Station is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy, that traces the revolutionary ideas that shaped the modern world from the French Revolution up through Lenin''s arrival at Finland Station in St. Petersburg in 1917. Fueled by Wilson''s own passionate engagement with the ideas and politics at play, it is a lively and vivid, sweeping account of a singular ideathat it is possible to construct a society based on justice, equality, and freedomgaining the power to change history.

Vico, Michelet, Bakunin, and especially Marxalong with scores of other anarchists, socialists, nihilists, utopians, and moreall come to life in these pages. And in Wilson''s telling, their stories and their ideas remain as alive, as provocative, as relevant n

To the Finland Station

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 24 April 2012
      ISBN-13 9780374533458
      978-0374533458
      ISBN-10 0374533458
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      European history: medieval period, middle ages

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik Revolution

      Edmund Wilson''s To the Finland Station is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy, that traces the revolutionary ideas that shaped the modern world from the French Revolution up through Lenin''s arrival at Finland Station in St. Petersburg in 1917. Fueled by Wilson''s own passionate engagement with the ideas and politics at play, it is a lively and vivid, sweeping account of a singular ideathat it is possible to construct a society based on justice, equality, and freedomgaining the power to change history.

      Vico, Michelet, Bakunin, and especially Marxalong with scores of other anarchists, socialists, nihilists, utopians, and moreall come to life in these pages. And in Wilson''s telling, their stories and their ideas remain as alive, as provocative, as relevant n

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