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'''''Statism and Anarchy''''' ([[Russian]]: ''Gosudarstvennost' i anarkhiia'') was the last work by the Russian anarchist [[Mikhail Bakunin]]. Written in the summer of 1873, the key themes of the work are: the likely impact on Europe of the [[Franco-Prussian war]] and the rise of the [[German Empire]], Bakunin's view of the weaknesses of the [[Marxist]] position, and an affirmation of [[anarchism]]. ''Statism and Anarchy'' was the only one of Bakunin's works to be written in Russian, and was primarily aimed at a Russian audience, with an initial print run of 1,200 copies printed in [[Switzerland]] and smuggled into Russia. <ref>Shatz, M. (ed.) (2005) ''Statism and Anarchy'' by Mikhail Bakunin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press</ref>
'''''Statism and Anarchy''''' ([[Russian]]: ''Gosudarstvennost' i anarkhiia'') was the last work by the Russian anarchist [[Mikhail Bakunin]]. Written in the summer of 1873, the key themes of the work are: the likely impact on Europe of the [[Franco-Prussian war]] and the rise of the [[German Empire]], Bakunin's view of the weaknesses of the [[Marxist]] position, and an affirmation of [[anarchism]]. ''Statism and Anarchy'' was the only one of Bakunin's major [[anarchist]] works to be written in Russian, and was primarily aimed at a Russian audience, with an initial print run of 1,200 copies printed in [[Switzerland]] and smuggled into Russia. <ref>Shatz, M. (ed.) (2005) ''Statism and Anarchy'' by Mikhail Bakunin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press</ref>


[[Marshall Shatz]] writes that ''Statism and Anarchy'': 'helped to lay the foundations of a Russian anarchist movement as a separate current within the revolutionary stream.'<ref>Shatz, M. (2005) 'Introduction' in (ed.) Shatz, M. (2005) ''Statism and Anarchy'' by Mikhail Bakunin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press</ref>
[[Marshall Shatz]] writes that ''Statism and Anarchy'': 'helped to lay the foundations of a Russian anarchist movement as a separate current within the revolutionary stream.'<ref>Shatz, M. (2005) 'Introduction' in (ed.) Shatz, M. (2005) ''Statism and Anarchy'' by Mikhail Bakunin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press</ref>

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Statism and Anarchy (Russian: Gosudarstvennost' i anarkhiia) was the last work by the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. Written in the summer of 1873, the key themes of the work are: the likely impact on Europe of the Franco-Prussian war and the rise of the German Empire, Bakunin's view of the weaknesses of the Marxist position, and an affirmation of anarchism. Statism and Anarchy was the only one of Bakunin's major anarchist works to be written in Russian, and was primarily aimed at a Russian audience, with an initial print run of 1,200 copies printed in Switzerland and smuggled into Russia. [1]

Marshall Shatz writes that Statism and Anarchy: 'helped to lay the foundations of a Russian anarchist movement as a separate current within the revolutionary stream.'[2]

  1. ^ Shatz, M. (ed.) (2005) Statism and Anarchy by Mikhail Bakunin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  2. ^ Shatz, M. (2005) 'Introduction' in (ed.) Shatz, M. (2005) Statism and Anarchy by Mikhail Bakunin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press