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Bakunin on Anarchy

Selected Works by the Activist-Founder of World Anarchism

Edited, Translated and with an Introduction by Sam Dolgoff

Published in 1971, by Vintage Books.

Michael Bakunin. A Biographical Sketch, by James Guillaume

I. The Pre-Anarchist Period: Revolutionary Pan-Slavism

1842 The Reaction in Germany

1847 On the 17th Anniversary of the Polish Insurrection

1848 Appeal to the Slavs

1851 Confession to Tsar Nicholas I

II. The Anarchism of Michael Bakunin

1866 Revolutionary Catechism

          National Catechism

1867 Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism

1869 The Program of the International Brotherhood

          The Policy of the International Workingmen's Association

III. The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune

1870 Letter to Albert Richard

          Letter to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis

                    General Problems of the Social Revolution

                    The Revolutionary Temper and its Matrix

                    A Critique of the German Social-Democratic Program

Representative Government and Universal Suffrage

1870 On Universal Suffrage

1871 God and the State

          Authority and Science

          Man, Society and Freedom

1871 The Program of the Alliance

                    Union Bureaucracy

                    Structure of the International

                    Structure of the State contrasted with that of the International

1871 The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State

1872 Letter to La Liberté

          The International and Karl Marx

IV. Final Years

1873 Statism and Anarchy

          Letter to the Comrades of the Jura Federation

1875 Letter to Élisée Reclus

1876 Ideas on Social Organization, by James Guillaume

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