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Mikhail Bakunin, chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer. His quarrel with Karl Marx split the anarchist and Marxist wings of the revolutionary socialist movement for many years after their deaths.

Mikhail Bakunin, (born May 30, 1814, Premukhino, Russia—died July 1, 1876, Bern, Switz.), Russian anarchist and political writer. He traveled in western Europe and was active in the Revolutions of 1848. After attending the Slav congress in Prague, he wrote the manifesto “An Appeal to Slavs” (1848).

Search for: 'Michael Bakunin' in Oxford Reference ». (1814–76)The most celebrated 19th-century anarchist, Bakunin was born in Russia of a cultivated and politically committed family. He studied in Moscow, where he came under the influence of the ideas of Fichte and of the ‘new Hegelian’ movement, with its emphasis on transformation ...

Born in May 1814 (the exact date is disputed), Bakunin became involved in politics in his late teens- his first known political effort was made at the age of 22 (1836), when he translated Hegel's "Gymnasial Lectures" into Russian- marking the first time Hegel had been translated into Russian.

a group of people in society who share the same political and economic status. Middle class: people who have some money and political rights. Nihilism: a nineteenth-century political philosophy in Russia that supported the use of terrorism to bring about revolution. Proletariat: the working class; people without property or political rights.