When was Mikhail Bakunin born and where did he grow up?
Mikhail Bakunin was born on the 30th of August 1814 into Russian nobility. He grew up at the Priamukhino estate in the Tver region with over 500 serfs.
Questions about Mikhail Bakunin
Short answers, pulled from the story.
What happened to Mikhail Bakunin after he deserted the St. Petersburg Artillery School in 1835?
The Russian Senate stripped him of noble rights and sentenced him in absentia to penal labor in Siberia. He escaped arrest through familial influence before leaving for Moscow to pursue teaching mathematics.
Why did Mikhail Bakunin get expelled from the First International in 1872?
Marx had Bakunin and other Bakunist anarchists ejected from the First International's 1872 Hague Congress due to ideological differences and maintaining a secret organization within its ranks. This expulsion split the Marxist socialist movement from the anarchist movement.
Which work by Mikhail Bakunin became his most famous posthumous publication?
A fragment found after his death titled God and the State was published in 1882 as his most famous work widely translated worldwide. It appeals to cast off both state and religion realizing man's inborn freedom.
When and where did Mikhail Bakunin die?
Mikhail Bakunin died in Bern on the 1st of July 1876. He retired there after an unsuccessful revolutionary act planned in Bologna in 1874.