From the Finland Station

by Theodore S. Hamerow and Hamerow

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465025757
• ISBN13: 9780465025756
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Powerful, fact-filled

The amount of evidence collected here is nothing short of amazing. Hamerow shows how the ideals of the revolutionaries were betrayed. To prove his point he summons hard facts: output of many industries, party membership rosters, and countless others. He describes the phases of a revolution: discredit the old order, overthrow, expulsion of the moderates in the revolutionary coalition, and a resumption of tyranny. This is clearly the work of a master historian. His conclusions are stark, and his proof unassailable. It may be considered (as suggested in the final chapter) the nonfiction companion to George Orwell's Animal Farm.