Introduction

This CD-ROM brings together the writings of the Russian anarchist Michail Aleksandrovic Bakunin. It includes images and transcriptions of more than 1200 letters and more than 350 texts that Bakunin wrote in the period 1823-1876. Much of the material is unique: the CD-ROM contains hundreds of texts that have not been published before. Many others are being made available for the first time integrally and in their original language.

Bakunin devoted his life to politics and played a major role in revolutionary movements in the second half of the 19th century. As an activist he participated in many of the uprisings that swept through Europe after 1848 and he was invol-ved in the foundation of revolutionary groups and secret organizations.

As a political thinker, he was a prolific writer who produced numerous articles and speeches, helped to draw up programs for political parties, and wrote letters of protest and pamphlets. Moreover, at each period of his life he was exchanging letters with dozens of correspondents, members of his family as well as political friends.

Apart from the writings and letters of Bakunin, the CD-ROM contains miscellaneous materials, like notes Bakunin made on works he studied, codes he used for some of his correspondence, and personal documents.