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To The Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
To The Finland Station A Study in the Writing and Acting of History Author:Edmund Wilson "To The Finland Station takes its title from the scene of Lenin's return to Russia in April 1917, during the early stages of the Russian Revolution. This event, whose consequences have dominated the modern world, brought to a climax the many political and intellectual movements which are the subject of this book. It is with the background to t... more »his event that Mr. Wilson concerns himself in the present book, the history of Vico's idea that "the social world is the work of man." He traces the influence of this revolutionary view of society through Michelet, Taine, Renan and Anatole France; through the early socialists, Saint-Simon, Babeuf, Fourier, Owen and the American socialists; and through the further development of their ideas in Marx and Engels. The final chapters deal with Lenin and Trotsky and the origins of the Russian Revolution itself, while in a new appendix Mr. Wilaon evaluates the most recent manifestations of the socialist idea."« less