Bakunin
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As Mikhail Bakunin, a 19th-century anarchist, observed, “it’s painful to live in Russia if you value the truth.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
The other prominent anarchist socialist was Mikhail Bakunin, a contemporary, sometimes friend, and sometimes rival of Proudhon.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
When young, he studied in Berlin at the same time as Karl Marx and, while there, counted the future anarchist Mikhail Bakunin as a friend.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2019
As for anarchism, the 19th Century Russian philosophers Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin are considered two of the most influential thinkers in anarchist history.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2019
Sarojini apologized and slid into her place between Jim Bokanovsky and Herbert Bakunin.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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