Bakunin

American

[buh-koo-nyin] / bʌˈku njɪn /

noun

Mikhail Aleksandrovich 1814–76, Russian anarchist and writer.

Bakunin British

/ baˈkunin /

noun

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

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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

One of the foremost anarchists of the nineteenth century was Mikhail Bakunin, a Russian revolutionary.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

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

Bin Laden speaks in the aristocratic voice of a terrorist-intellectual, a Muslim version of the 19th-century anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.

From Washington Post ● May 5, 2015

Sarojini apologized and slid into her place between Jim Bokanovsky and Herbert Bakunin.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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