Authors: Edmund Wilson, Louis Menand
ISBN-13: 9781590170335, ISBN-10: 1590170334
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: Reprint
Edmund Wilson's magnum opus, To the Finland Station, is a stirring account of revolutionary politics, people, and ideas from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. It is a work of history on a grand scale, at once sweeping and detailed, closely reasoned and passionately argued, that succeeds in painting an unforgettable picturealive with conspirators and philosophers, utopians and nihilistsof the making of the modern world.
Foreword | ||
Introduction, 1971 | ||
Michelet Discovers Vico | 5 | |
Michelet and the Middle Ages | 9 | |
Michelet and the Revolution | 15 | |
Michelet Tries to Live His History | 26 | |
Michelet Between Nationalism and Socialism | 29 | |
Decline of the Revolutionary Tradition: Renan | 37 | |
Decline of the Revolutionary Tradition: Taine | 46 | |
Decline of the Revolutionary Tradition: Anatole France | 56 | |
Origins of Socialism: Babeuf's Defense | 71 | |
Origins of Socialism: Saint-Simon's Hierarchy | 80 | |
Origins of Socialism: The Communities of Fourier and Owen | 87 | |
Origins of Socialism: Enfantin and the American Socialists | 98 | |
Karl Marx: Prometheus and Lucifer | 111 | |
Karl Marx Decides to Change the World | 120 | |
Friedrich Engels: The Young Man from Manchester | 128 | |
The Partnership of Marx and Engels | 139 | |
Marx and Engels: Grinding the Lens | 150 | |
Marx and Engels Take a Hand at Making History | 161 | |
The Myth of the Dialectic | 177 | |
Marx and Engels Go Back to Writing History | 197 | |
Historical Actors: Lassalle | 225 | |
Historical Actors: Bakunin | 256 | |
Karl Marx: Poet of Commodities and Dictator of the Proletariat | 284 | |
Karl Marx Dies at His Desk | 324 | |
Lenin: The Brothers Ulyanov | 343 | |
Lenin: The Great Headmaster | 367 | |
Trotsky: The Young Eagle | 397 | |
Trotsky Identifies History with Himself | 422 | |
Lenin Identifies Himself with History | 438 | |
Lenin at the Finland Station | 449 | |
Appendices | 467 | |
Index | 493 |