- History, Socialism, Philosophy, Communism
Presents the history of revolutionary thought and the birth of socialism, from the French Revolution and the 1824 rediscovery by Jules Michelet of the ideas of Italian political philosopher Giovanni Vico about the perfectibility of man, through the 19th-century collaboration of Marx and Engels, to the 1917 arrival of Vladimir Lenin at Finland Station, Saint Petersburg, to lead the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution.--Adapted from Wikipedia.
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- Author
- Edmund Wilson
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 509
- Publisher
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Buccaneer Books, Fontana/Collins
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781568495743
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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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