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To the Finland Station

Edmund Wilson

What did the thinkers and revolutionaries behind socialism believe they were doing, and how did their ideas end up shaping the Russian Revolution?

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At a glance

Author
Edmund Wilson

Why read it

  • You will learn to notice when you are idealizing a distant upheaval, and to ask what the picture leaves out
  • You will understand how ideas travel from thinkers like Marx and Engels into movements and governments
  • You will see how a movement's founders can be sincere about a better world and still be wrong about what follows

Who it is for

  • A reader of political history who wants the ideas behind the events
  • A reader who wants socialism's history told through its people
  • A student of revolutions who wants a long view

Contents

  1. Introduction, 1971
  2. I
  3. Michelet Discovers Vico
  4. Michelet and the Middle Ages
  5. Michelet and the Revolution
  6. Michelet Tries to Live His History
  7. Michelet Between Nationalism and Socialism
  8. Decline of the Revolutionary Tradition: Renan
  9. Decline of the Revolutionary Tradition: Taine
  10. Decline of the Revolutionary Tradition: Anatole France
  11. II
  12. Origins of Socialism: Babeuf’s Defense
  13. Origins of Socialism: Saint-Simon’s Hierarchy
  14. Origins of Socialism: The Communities of Fourier and Owen
  15. Origins of Socialism: Enfantin and the American Socialists
  16. Karl Marx: Prometheus and Lucifer
  17. Karl Marx Decides to Change the World
  18. Friedrich Engels: The Young Man from Manchester
  19. The Partnership of Marx and Engels
  20. Marx and Engels: Grinding the Lens
  21. Marx and Engels Take a Hand at Making History
  22. The Myth of the Dialectic
  23. Marx and Engels Go Back to Writing History
  24. Historical Actors: Lassalle
  25. Historical Actors: Bakúnin
  26. Karl Marx: Poet of Commodities and Dictator of the Proletariat
  27. Karl Marx Dies at His Desk
  28. III
  29. Lenin: The Brothers Ulyánov
  30. Lenin: The Great Headmaster
  31. Trotsky: The Young Eagle
  32. Trotsky Identifies History with Himself
  33. Lenin Identifies Himself with History
  34. Lenin at the Finland Station
  35. APPENDICES
  36. Appendix A
  37. Appendix B
  38. Marx on the Differential Calculus
  39. Appendix C
  40. Engels to Marx, February 13, 1851
  41. Appendix D
  42. Herr Vogt and His Modern Successors

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