To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History

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Edmund Wilsons 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 picture--alive with conspirators and philosophers utopians and nihilists--of the making of the modern world.