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To the Finald Station is one of the greatest works by 20th-century America’s heralded man of letters. This magisterial study of the revolutionary dream reaches from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to Russia in 1917, and features brilliant portraits of such figures as Jules... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Karl Marx: Add a description of this character.
- Michelet
- Lenin
- Bakunin
- Vladimir Ilyich
- Renan
- Jenny Marx
- Bismarck
- Babeuf
- Krupskaya
- Trotsky
- Martov
- Anna
- Robert Owen
- Ulyanov
- Das Kapital
- Plekhanov
- Alexander
- Sasha
- Maria Alexandrovna
- Lev Daqdovich
- Liebknecht
- Lassalle
- Lassa Ile
- Bronstein
- Marcus Aurelius
- Nechaev
- Alexandra Lvovna
- Taine
- Mary Burns
- Noyes
- Herzen
- Bakimin
- Herr Von Schlickmann
- Dana
- Paul
- Ilya Nikolievich
- Bernstein
- Jeanne
- Lafargue
- Volodya
- Fedoseyev
- Gorky
- Sukhanov
Setting & Locations edit
- Prussia
- Anatole France
- Paris
- Germany
- London
- England
- Saint-simon
- Western Europe
- Berlin
- Simbirsk
- Cologne
- Moscow
- Manchester
- United States
- St. Petersburg
- Siberia
- Odessa
- Italy
- Switzerland
- Petrograd
- Samara
- Geneva
- Austria
- Feuerbach
- Brussels
- Dresden
- America
- Finland
- Poland
- Iskra
- Versailles
- New York
- Republic
- New Lanark
- Elberfeld
- Middle Ages
- Kremlin
- Egypt
- Zurich
- Vienna
- Sweden
- Soho
- Kronstadt
- Spain
- Judaism
- Dusseldorf
First Sentence edit
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.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 95 of 102 in National Review - 100 Best Non-fiction Books of the Century. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Way the World Works (Gateway Contemporary), and followed by Civilisation.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Edmund Wilson (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 335.4
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Political Doctrines › Communism
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Political Doctrines › Socialism
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Ideologies › Communism & Socialism
- Books › History › Historical Study › Historiography
- Books › History › Europe › Finland
- Books › History › World
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