1. Edmund Wilson wrote two massive ? but not a word too long ? critical studies: ?Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War?; and To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History, an interpretive history of the ideas that led to the Russian Revolution of 1917 (the Finland train station in St. Petersburg was the point of reentry into Russia by the revolution?s principal architect, the previously exiled Vladimir Lenin). Newly republished as an FSG Classic (paperback, $18), ?To the Finland Station? comes with Wilson?s introduction to the 1971 edition (the book first came out in 1940). There he accepts the criticism that he went too easy on Lenin in the book, his excuse being that much more information about Lenin?s behavior became available after the writing. ?It would appear,? Wilson concludes, ?that Vladimir Ilyich showed special consideration and kindness only to people who did not disagree with him, but was quite harsh and rude with others.?
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