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Mikhail Bakunin

1814 - 1876

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Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin ( bə-KOO-nin; 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist. He is among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major figure in the revolutionary socialist, social anarchist, and collectivist anarchist traditions. Bakunin's prestige as a revolutionary also made him one of the most famous ideologues in Europe, gaining substantial influence among radicals throughout Russia and Europe. Bakunin grew up in Pryamukhino, a family estate in Tver Governorate. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Bakunin is the 55th most popular philosopher (up from 58th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Russia and the 2nd most popular Russian Philosopher.

Mikhail Bakunin is most famous for his involvement in the International Workingmen's Association and the First International, which he helped found.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Mikhail Bakunin ranks 55 out of 1,267. Before him are Ludwig Wittgenstein, Anaxagoras, John Amos Comenius, Swami Vivekananda, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt. After him are Henri Bergson, Plotinus, Karl Popper, Ramakrishna, Zeno of Elea, and Zhuang Zhou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Mikhail Bakunin ranks 1. After him are Jean-François Millet, Taras Shevchenko, Mikhail Lermontov, Samuel Colt, Anders Jonas Ångström, Adolphe Sax, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, and Henri Nestlé. Among people deceased in 1876, Mikhail Bakunin ranks 1. After him are Abdülaziz, George Sand, Wild Bill Hickok, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Karl Ernst von Baer, George Armstrong Custer, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Truganini, Catherine Labouré, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, and Ildefons Cerdà.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Bakunin ranks 26 out of 3,761. Before him are Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Ayn Rand (1905), Ivan Pavlov (1849), Maxim Gorky (1868), Lev Yashin (1929), and Yuri Andropov (1914). After him are Alexander II of Russia (1818), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Isaac Asimov (1920), Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), and Alexander III of Russia (1845).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Mikhail Bakunin ranks 2. Before him are Immanuel Kant (1724). After him are Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Ivan Ilyin (1883), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), and P. D. Ouspensky (1878).

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