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Mikhail Bakunin
Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher (1814–1876)
"Bakunin" redirects here. For others with this surname, see Bakunin (surname). For the 1937 book by E. H. Carr, see Bakunin (biography). For the Soviet politician, see Nikolai Bukharin.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexandrovich and the family name is Bakunin.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin[a] (bə-KOO-nin;[4] 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist. He is among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major figure in the revolutionary socialist, social anarchist,[5] and collectivist anarchist traditions. Bakunin's prestige as a revolutionary also made him one of the most famous ideologues in Europe, gaining substantial influence among radicals throughout Russia and Europe.
Bakunin grew up in Pryamukhino, a family estate in Tver Governorate. From 1840, he studied in Moscow, then in Berlin hoping to enter academia. Later in Paris, he met Karl Marx and
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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin[a] (;[1] 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian anarchist and revolutionary. He became an anarchist in the 1860s, and was one of the first people in the movement. Before that he was part of the left-wing of pan-Slavism.[2] He is also known as the father of Russian nihilism.[3]
History
[change | change source]Mikhail was born in the Russian Empire to a family of Russiannobles. As a young man he was a junior officer in the Russian army, but he quit his commission in 1835. He went to school in Moscow to study philosophy and began to attend radical groups where he was greatly influenced by Alexander Herzen. Bakunin left Russia in 1842 for Dresden, and eventually Paris where he met George Sand, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx
He was eventually deported from France for speaking against Russia's oppression of Poland. In 1849 he was arrested in Dresden for being involved in the Czech rebellion of 1848. He was turned over to Russia where he was imprisoned i
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(1) Henry Longfellow, diary entry (27th November, 1861)
George Sumner and Mikhail Bakunin to dinner. Mr. Bakunin is a Russian gentleman of education and ability - a giant of a man, with a most ardent, seething temperament. He was in the Revolution of Forty-eight; has seen the inside of prisons of Olmiitz, even, where he had Lafayette's room. Was afterwards four years in Siberia; whence he escaped in June last, down the Amoor, and then in an American vessel by way of Japan to California, and across the isthmus, hitherward. An interesting man.
(2) Mikhail Bakunin and Sergi Nechayev, Catechism of a Revolutionist (1869)
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world.
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