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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 ideas and writings of political theorists representing all aspects of socialist, anarchist, and what would later be known as communist thought, among them Jules Michelet, Henri de Saint-Simon, Robert Owen, Mikhail Bakunin, Anatole France, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Leon Trotsky, and Vladimir Ilich Lenin—who arrived at the Petrograd (St. Petersburg) Finland Station in 1917 to lead the Bolshevik Revolution.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.