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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, Communism… where the hell did that bullshit come from anyway?  Edmund Wilson has followed the footsteps back along the trail in a book that gives appropriate weight and attention to biography, to history, and to philosophy.<br/><br/>So far, the thing that’s made me go “hmmmm…” the mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5450789">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m leaving this unfinished for now, breaking off (or merely just pausing) before the portrait of Lenin that concludes this varicolored chronicle of European socialisms. Wilson concedes, in the 1971 preface, that those final chapters are full of starry-eyed bullshit. Wilson’s radiant image of Le...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74381205">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Certainly not a light, pleasant reader. I believe I read this book whenever I got the chance during school over a period of two to three weeks. This speed suited me the best as any faster I would've burned out or skipped sections of the book.[return][return]What does this book cover? Mostly the biog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66486625">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Takes a little effort but very worth it.  I very much like the way Wilson writes.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all, with all the effort it takes to read this book, I hope I've learned something, but there was much that was beyond me, especially economics.  Yet, I feel I did learn some of the historical features of the development of dialectical materialism.  The book focuses a great deal on Marx and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53683372">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>Badass.  Encyclopedic in the right way.  Every few pages tells the story of another character in the drama of European Socialism.  The stories are well worth knowing, and reading.<br/><br/>Got to lose a star on account of Wilson's having been sucked into taking Lenin to be a better man...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15308327">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in college for a class and promptly forgot everything about it. I decided to reread it, and I'm so glad I did. If you are interested in history and socialism and especially those behind both, this book is a must. History classes don't teach much about the lives of Marx, Engels, Lenin, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75038393">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Edmund Wilson's magnum opus, <em>To the Finland Station</em>, 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 picture--alive with conspirators and philosophers, utopians and nihilists--of the making of the modern world.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 blen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76152813">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The subtitle indicates the scope of this acute and well ordered study of revolution, in theory and in action. In fact it might be defined as a biography of revolution, the formation of revolutionary ideas, their presentation and their fulfillment. The first third of the book deals with Michelet and his followers, Renan, Taine and France, who were to usher in the decline of enlightenment and of the bourgeois revolution. Paralleling this, socialism developed in inverse proportion, in France and America. The second part of the book is largely devoted to Marx and Engels, who were to attempt to change the world rather than to record and interpret it. The last third deals with Lenin, &quot;headmaster&quot; of Revolution, and through whom &quot;the key of a philosophy of history was to fit an historical lock&quot;. Wilson is one of the finest liberal critics of our time--and this study though not for the general reader, is important as analysis of the progress of the social world, up to a certain point.--Kirkus]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe I still own this -- I <s>borrowed</s> liberated it from my father when I was still in my teens. In later years, Wilson became quite the reactionary blowhard, but this study, written in 1940, is more intellectually generous. Its naive admiration of Trotsky is, in retrospect, almost touching,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43031915">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Edmund Wilson's magnum opus, <em>To the Finland Station</em>, 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 picture--alive with conspirators and philosophers, utopians and nihilists--of the making of the modern world.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[An engaging and comprehensive narrative on the leftist movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. Read the chapters on Marx and Lenin, then read them again. The world will unfold.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[From the ideas of the early nineteenth-century socialists to the thoughts of Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, Edmund Wilson traces the development of the political and intellectual movements that culminated in the Russian Revolution. TO THE FINLAND STATION 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 picture - alive with conspirators and philosophers, utopians and nihilists - of the making of the modern world. 'The first thing that strikes us about To the Finland Station is the vastness of its scope...It is easily, equally at home in the philosopher's study, in the prisoner's cell, on the steppes, in the streets, melancholy in great country houses, choking in fetid industrial slums...It can remind us that our history is alive and open and rich with excitement and promise' New York Times Book Review]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;the philosophers hitherto have only interpreted the world in various ways: the thing is, however, to change it.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[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.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't recommend this book enough.  It follows the thread of a belief in history.  Each generation seems to build on the last in formulating the theory that eventually leads to the Russian Revolution.  The title refers to Lenin's being shipped through Europe in a sealed train car back to Russia and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18218798">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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