To the Finland station
Subtitle: a study in the writing and acting of history
By: Edmund Wilson ; foreword by Louis Menand.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
Subjects: Socialism -- History; Communism -- History; History -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Michelet discovers Vico; title: Michelet and the Middle Ages; title: Michelet and the revolution; title: Michelet tries to live his history; title: Michelet between nationalism and socialism; title: Decline of the revolutionary tradition : Renan; title: Decline of the revolutionary tradition : Taine; title: Decline of the revolutionary tradition : Anatole France; title: Origins of socialism : Babeuf's defense; title: Origins of socialism : Saint-Simon's hierarchy; title: Origins of socialism : the communities of Fourier and Owen; title: Origins of socialism : Enfantin and the American socialists; title: Karl Marx : Prometheus and Lucifer; title: Karl Marx decides to change the world; title: Friedrich Engels : the young man from Manchester; title: The partnership of Marx and Engels; title: Marx and Engels : grinding the lens; title: Marx and Engels take a hand at making history; title: The myth of the dialectic; title: Marx and Engels go back to writing history; title: Historical actors : Lassalle; title: Historical actors : Baknin; title: Karl Marx : poet of commodities and dictator of the proletariat; title: Karl Marx dies at his desk; title: Lenin : the brothers Ulynov; title: Lenin : the great headmaster; title: Trotsky : the young eagle; title: Trotsky identifies history with himself with Lenin; title: Lenin identifies himself with history; title: Lenin at the Finland station.