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Mikhail Bakunin, in full Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, (born May 30 [May 18, Old Style], 1814, Premukhino, Russia—died July 1 [June 19], 1876, Bern, Switzerland), chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer.

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).

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.

132 quotes from Mikhail Bakunin: 'The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.', 'But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds.

About Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin [a] (/bəˈkuːnɪn/; 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist, socialist and founder of collectivist anarchism. He is considered among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major founder of the revolutionary socialist and social anarchist tradition.

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.

God and the State (called by its author The Historical Sophisms of the Doctrinaire School of Communism) is an unfinished manuscript by the Russian anarchist philosopher Mikhail Bakunin, published posthumously in 1882.

Title: The Capitalist System. Author: Mikhail Bakunin. Topics: classical , economics. Source: Retrieved on February 13 th, 2009 from www.spunk.org. Notes: This pamphlet is an excerpt from “The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution” and included in “The Complete Works of Michael Bakunin” under the title “Fragment.”.