About this title: This magisterial study of the 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 Marx, Engels, Lenin, and ...
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. cover and binding wear, W249. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 608 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ANCHOR PRESS/DOUBLEDAY
Date Published: 1953-01-01
Description: Good. Paperback. Cover shows moderate wear to edges, no spine creasing. Spine is extremely sun-faded. Top corner of back cover has small crease. Sticker on back cover. Front endpaper has markings from previous owner, no other markings. Pages are clean and very lightly sunned to edges. Binding is excellent. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 1972-01-01
ISBN-13:9780374510459ISBN:0374510458
Description: Good. This book is a little bent and worn Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Softcover; VG+ condition; light shelfwear; (shelf b104); "Marx, Engels, Babeuf, Michelet, Proudhon, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Robert Owen, Lassalle, Lenin and many more, seem larger than life. The idea that binds all of these people together, is the great dream of Revolution"; 590 pages; read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1940
ISBN-13:9781590170335ISBN:1590170334
Description: Fair. 1940 Doubleday collectible printing. Writing and underlining. Spine is separating, but pages are clean and good reading copy-can be repaired. Title is: "To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History" Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Doubleday / Anchor 1953
Date Published: 1953
Description: ISBN. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing. Small owners name on the first page in, otherwise a Tight sound unmarked copy in very good condition with slight spine fading. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Date Published: 2003-03-01
ISBN-13:9781590170335ISBN:1590170334
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Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. "The revolutionary tradition in Europe and the rise of socialism". Neat tight early sixties copy of the classic study of revolutionaries-Vico, Saint-Simon, Taine, Michelet, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky. read more
"History, thought Michelet, was not a stream of episodes in the lives of great men but rather a concatenation of social forces. In this book, Wilson gives the account of Michelet's idea as it passes through the hands of the French social historians, to Marx, and onto Lenin. Wilson offers a great blend of the biographical and the philosophical. The long middle section on Marx and Engels is stunning, although the material that precedes and follows it is less compelling."
"A wide-ranging story of the development of the Socialist/Communist movement in 19th Century Europe, from the post French Revolution roots up to Lenin's arrival in St. Petersburg(at the Finland Station) to lead the Bolsheviks in 1917."
"Oddly enough, I found the beginning bits, about now-obscure 19th century French historians, more compelling than the bits about Marx, Lenin and Trotsky. What can I say? I'm a sucker for contextual historiography!"
"Edmund Wilson's second major work, in my view (first being Axel's Castle). It's very readable, and it is interesting as it looks at the history of Communism from the POV of those writers and intellectuals who were young during WW I, who rejected empires, colonialism, and the U.S. equivalents. Only Stalin could erode their high-minded ebullience.
This high-minded lack of perception of how human beings work, how cultures change, and how economics is shaped by same, shows most as the book goes on. When he gets to Lenin's famous trip to the Finland Station, he really meant to exalt the reader by showing the triumph of Communist ideals . . . but what we read is what Lenin wanted people to believe about himself. Still, this is valuable for a glimpse at the early days of Communism, and how Soviet Russia saw itself."
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