Bakunin

[buh-koo-nyin]

noun

1. Mikhail Aleksandrovich 1814–76, Russian anarchist and writer.

Bakunin

/ baˈkunin /

noun

1. Mikhail (mixaˈil). 1814–76, Russian anarchist and writer: a prominent member of the First International, expelled from it after conflicts with Marx

Example Sentences

Mr. Persico might have added the well-known words of the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin: “If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”

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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.

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Andrew Divoff — who played the Others’ one-eyed, death-defying enforcer Mikhail Bakunin — was similarly eloquent when I asked him why he thought his character was named for a famous Russian anarchist.

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Later, on Instagram, he posted a quote from the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin: “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”

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Mikhail Bakunin described him as “ambitious and vain, quarrelsome, intolerant and absolute…vengeful to the point of madness”.

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