To the Finland Station - A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (Paperback)

from ostrom

I finally got to visit St. Petersburg in 1994 and walk across the bridge . . . to the Finland Station! There wasn't much going on. I'd missed the revolution by 70-80 years or so. Oh, well.

from mwirkk

Generally, I can't stand Edmund Wilson when he's wearing his 'critics hat', but I can tolerate him enough for the sake of his scholarship, such as it is here. Worth your time to read.

from JBreedlove

A heavy book loaded with the philosophical and historical under pinnings of socialsim and communism. Social conditions beget ideas, ideas beget actions which beget social conditions. . .

from JBreedlove

A heavy book loaded with the philosophical and historical under pinnings of socialsim and communism. Social conditions beget ideas, ideas beget actions which beget social conditions. . .

from RobertDay

First, let's be clear about which edition we are looking at; I was reading the British Penguin edition, published in 1991. This was a UK edition of the 1972 US edition, for which Wilson wrote a new introduction; much of the text was written in 1940, and the later chapters make this quite clear - ...