Edmund Wilson
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| Title | : | To the Finland Station |
| Author | : | Edmund Wilson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 507 pages |
| Published | : | April 30th 2003 by NYRB Classics (first published 1940) |
| Categories | : | History. Politics. Nonfiction. Cultural. Russia. Philosophy. European History. Classics |
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Edmund Wilson's magnum opus, To the Finland Station, is a stirring account of revolutionary politics, people, and ideas from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. It 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.Declare Books Concering To the Finland Station
| Original Title: | To the Finland Station |
| ISBN: | 1590170334 (ISBN13: 9781590170335) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/wilson.html |
| Characters: | Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Giovanni Vico, Henri de Saint-Simon, Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, Charles Fourier, Vladimir Lenin, Friedrich Engels |
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Ratings: 4.1 From 1119 Users | 101 ReviewsDiscuss Epithetical Books To the Finland Station
I absolutely loved it! Would recommend to anyone with an interest in history, thought, and/or socialism/communism/marxism/etc. Edmund Wilson writes well and creates a compelling narrative of the intellectual foundation of modern (at least in his time) Soviet Russia by taking us through historico-revolutionary thought from the 17th to the 20th century. It is obviously a cursory look, but a good starting place. His passages on Vico, Marx, and Lenin show a particular personal attachment, but he
... the historian, who, taking history as something more than a game, makes the effort in good faith to enter into the life of the past ... For where is the life here? Who can say, here, which are the living and which are the dead?Jules Michelet, quoted by Edmund WilsonEdmund Wilson; his book; his later view of the bookEdmund Wilson (1895-1972) was an American writer and critic. Some of his many books included Axels Castle (1931), Memoirs of Hecate County (1946), The Scrolls from the Dead Sea
I read it years ago but came back to it after finishing the last volume of Solzhenitsyn's history of the Russian revolution translated into English thus far. Wilson was of course thoughtful and well-read far beyond the subjects of his essays, a quality in popular public intellectuals that practically died with Christopher Hitchens. This breadth gave him an ability to situate thinkers minor and major within a broader milieu, which is helpful.If this book has a theme, it is about how people seize
... the historian, who, taking history as something more than a game, makes the effort in good faith to enter into the life of the past ... For where is the life here? Who can say, here, which are the living and which are the dead?Jules Michelet, quoted by Edmund WilsonEdmund Wilson; his book; his later view of the bookEdmund Wilson (1895-1972) was an American writer and critic. Some of his many books included Axels Castle (1931), Memoirs of Hecate County (1946), The Scrolls from the Dead Sea
History could be told this way, if we really wanted it to... an interplay of ideas and circumstances, beginning with Michelet's reading of Vico and ending with Lenin's arrival at the Finland Station, ready to start his revolution. Suddenly all these ideas, all these people are rendered as fully fleshed characters with as much personality and subjectivity as the protagonists of a 19th Century psychological novel. And a finer explication of the socialist ideal-- what it is, what it was, what it
It is one of historys great questions: How did it all go so wrong? How did Communism, which was founded on the principles of equality, fraternity, justice, and human dignity become the antithesis of all of them? So many brilliant thinkers laid the groundwork, and it attracted the best and the brightest followers, the smartest, most dedicated, most talented. If any ideology ever seriously had a chance to change the world, this was it, and yet everywhere it was tried it quickly become brutal,
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