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To the Finland station : a study in the writing and acting of history / Edmund Wilson ; foreword by Louis Menand.
LIBRA - Special HX36 .W5 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
- Series:
- New York Review books (Series)
- New York Review Books classics
- This is a New York Review book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socialism--History.
- Socialism.
- History.
- Communism--History.
- Communism.
- History--Philosophy.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 507 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New York Review Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- This magisterial study revolutionary dream reaches from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to Russia in 1917, and features brilliant portraits of such figures as Jules Michelet, the great historian of the French people; the utopians Robert Owen and Charles Fourier; the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin; and of course Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky. Combining his polymathic talents as critic, journalist, historian, and novelist, Edmund Wilson offers an incisive and enduring tribute to the resilience, depth, and passion of the modern culture of protest.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Michelet discovers Vico
- Michelet and the Middle Ages
- Michelet and the revolution
- Michelet tries to live his history
- Michelet between nationalism and socialism
- Decline of the revolutionary tradition : Renan
- Decline of the revolutionary tradition : Taine
- Decline of the revolutionary tradition : Anatole France
- Origins of socialism : Babeuf's defense
- Origins of socialism : Saint-Simon's hierarchy
- Origins of socialism : the communities of Fourier and Owen
- Origins of socialism : Enfantin and the American socialists
- Karl Marx : Prometheus and Lucifer
- Karl Marx decides to change the world
- Friedrich Engels : the young man from Manchester
- The partnership of Marx and Engels
- Marx and Engels : grinding the lens
- Marx and Engels take a hand at making history
- The myth of the dialectic
- Marx and Engels go back to writing history
- Historical actors : Lassalle
- Historical actors : Baknin
- Karl Marx : poet of commodities and dictator of the proletariat
- Karl Marx dies at his desk
- Lenin : the brothers Ulynov
- Lenin : the great headmaster
- Trotsky : the young eagle
- Trotsky identifies history with himself with Lenin
- Lenin identifies himself with history
- Lenin at the Finland station.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1590170334
- OCLC:
- 51266181
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