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Retreat from the Finland Station: Moral Odysseys in the Breakdown of Communism
by Murphy, Kenneth
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0029223156
- ISBN 13
- 9780029223154
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Free Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition per complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Former owner's name & date in small script at top of front free end paper. Balance of interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings to note. Dust jacket very good; light shelf & edge wear; no tears; shadow of crease on back jacket flap; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""In 1940, when Marxism seemed at its apex as a moral and political force, Edmund Wilson published 'To the Finland Station,' his landmark work on the growth of the socialist idea from Vico and Michelet to Lenin's triumphant return to Russia in a sealed train. Picking up where Wilson left off, Kenneth Murphy, in this sweeping historical investigation, follows the decline of Marxism from the beginning of the Revolution in October 1917, through its demise in the myriad revolutions of Eastern Europe in November1989 and the failed putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev of August 1991. . . . Murphy's interweaving of political and literary lives reveals not only the tragedy of faith in this century's most seductive ideology, but the folly of grafting abstract theories onto the lives of real people.""
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- Elk Creek Heritage Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001078
- Title
- Retreat from the Finland Station: Moral Odysseys in the Breakdown of Communism
- Author
- Murphy, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0029223156
- ISBN 13
- 9780029223154
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Communism - History - 20th Century, Eastern Europe - Politics and Government - 1945-1989, Soviet Union - Politics and government
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics & Government;
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