To the Finland Station

Edmund Wilson’s 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.