Wilson Edmund - To The Finland Station A Study In The Acting And Writing Of History - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 idea that it is possible to construct a society based on justice equality and freedom gaining the power to change history. Vico Michelet Bakunin and especially Marx along with scores of other anarchists socialists nihilists utopians and more all come to life in these pages. And in Wilson's telling their stories and their ideas remain as alive as provocative as relevant now as they were in their own time.
Title: To The Finland Station A Study In The Acting And Writing Of History
Author(s): Wilson Edmund
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374533458
Pages: 608 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/24/2012
Series: FSG Classics