To the Finland Station; a Study in the Writing and Acting of History Summary
Edmund Wilson

To the Finland Station; a Study in the Writing and Acting of History Summary

TO THE FINLAND STATION, by Edmund Wilson, traces the development of revolutionary thought and politics from the period of the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution. Wilson looks at the different people and their theories beginning with Jules Michelet who was fascinated with the processes proposed by Vico, through Marx, Lenin and Trotsky. The book traces the development of revolutionary thought as each theorist picked through the extant theories and built...

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