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

Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374278334 ISBN 13: 9780374278335

Publisher: Macmillan,, 1972

Synopsis

From the ideas of the early nineteenth-century socialists to the thoughts of Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, Edmund Wilson traces the development of the political and intellectual movements that culminated in the Russian Revolution.

TO THE FINLAND STATION is a work of history on a grand scale, at once sweeping and detailed, closely reasoned and passionately argued, that succeeds in painting an unforgettable picture - alive with conspirators and philosophers, utopians and nihilists - of the making of the modern world.

'The first thing that strikes us about To the Finland Station is the vastness of its scope¿It is easily, equally at home in the philosopher's study, in the prisoner's cell, on the steppes, in the streets, melancholy in great country houses, choking in fetid industrial slums¿It can remind us that our history is alive and open and rich with excitement and promise' New York Times Book Review

About this title

Book Description:

The classic history of revolutionary politics, people and ideas - now reissued with a new Introduction.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan,
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0374278334
• ISBN 13: 9780374278335
• Binding: Hardcover