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An edition of To the Finland station (1940)

To the Finland station

a study in the writing and acting of history

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New York Review of Books
Language
English
Pages
507

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Subjects
History, Socialism, Philosophy, Communism, Historiography, Socialisme, Histoire, Communisme, Philosophie, Communism, history, History, philosophy, Socialism, history, Socialismo storia, Soviet union, history, revolution, 1917-1921
People
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1814-1876), Ferdinand Lassalle (1825-1864), Karl Marx (1818-1883), Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Jules Michelet (1798-1874), Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (1870-1924), Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Places
Paris, Moscow
Times
1817-1917

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Table of Contents

Introduction. Michelet discovers Vico
Michelet and the Middle Ages
Michelet and the revolution
Michelet tries to live his history
Michelet between nationalism and socialism
Decline of the revolutionary tradition : Renan
Decline of the revolutionary tradition : Taine
Decline of the revolutionary tradition : Anatole France
Origins of socialism : Babeuf's defense
Origins of socialism : Saint-Simon's hierarchy
Origins of socialism : the communities of Fourier and Owen
Origins of socialism : Enfantin and the American socialists
Karl Marx : Prometheus and Lucifer
Karl Marx decides to change the world
Friedrich Engels : the young man from Manchester
The partnership of Marx and Engels
Marx and Engels : grinding the lens
Marx and Engels take a hand at making history
The myth of the dialectic
Marx and Engels go back to writing history
Historical actors : Lassalle
Historical actors : Baknin
Karl Marx : poet of commodities and dictator of the proletariat
Karl Marx dies at his desk
Lenin : the brothers Ulynov
Lenin : the great headmaster
Trotsky : the young eagle
Trotsky identifies history with himself with Lenin
Lenin identifies himself with history
Lenin at the Finland station.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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Series
New York Review Books classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
335.4
Library of Congress
HX36 .W5 2003, HX36.W5 2003

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Pagination
xxxi, 507 p. ;
Number of pages
507

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OL21598154M
ISBN 10
1590170334
LCCN
2002155912
OCLC/WorldCat
51266181
Library Thing
58228
Goodreads
694282

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"ONE DAY in the January of 1824, a young French professor named Jules Michelet, who was teaching philosophy and history, found the name of Giovanni Vico in a translator's note to a book he was reading."

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