To the Finland Station

To the Finland Station, critical and historical study by Edmund Wilson of European writers and theorists of socialism who set the stage for the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was published in book form in 1940, although much of the material had previously appeared in The New Republic. (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.) The work discusses European socialism, anarchism, and various theories of revolution from their origins to their implementation. It presents...