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
Mboweni tweeted, comparing the EFF to followers of the 19th-century anarchist revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2020
In this, they were inspired by the anarchist socialism of the exiled Mikhail Bakunin, whose vision of an apocalyptic revolutionary transformation spoke directly to the social and political conditions of his native Russia.
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
Sarojini apologized and slid into her place between Jim Bokanovsky and Herbert Bakunin.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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