To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of History - Softcover

Wilson, Edmund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374510458 ISBN 13: 9780374510459

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972

Synopsis

Carefully explores the birth and evolution of communism in Europe from the theories of Vico, Michelet, and Robert Owen to the twentieth-century activism of Trotsky and Lenin

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About the Author:

EDMUND WILSON (1895–1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of letters of the twentieth century. Over his long career, he wrote for Vanity Fair, helped edit The New Republic, served as chief book critic for The New Yorker, and was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Wilson was the author of more than twenty books, including Axel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore, and a work of fiction, Memoirs of Hecate County.

Review:

Critical and historical study of European writers and theorists of socialism who set the stage for the Russian Revolution of 1917, by Edmund Wilson. It was published in book form in 1940 although much of the material had previously appeared in The New Republic. The work discusses European socialism, anarchism, and various theories of revolution from their origins to their implementation. It presents ideas and writings of political theorists representing all aspects of socialist, anarchist, and what would later be known as communist thought, among them Jules Michelet, Henri de Saint-Simon, Robert Owen, Mikhail Bakunin, Anatole France, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leon Trotsky, and Vladimir Ilich Lenin--who arrived at Petrograd's (St. Petersburg's) Finland Station in 1917 to lead the Bolshevik revolution. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0374510458
• ISBN 13: 9780374510459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608