Bakunin

Bakunin, Michael, was born of an aristocratic Russian family in 1814. After serving in the army he travelled in Western Europe, and came under the influence of George Sand, Proudhon, and the French socialists in 1847. He took part in the German revolutionary movement of 1848-49, was captured by the Russian authorities, and sent to Siberia, whence he escaped. Settling in Switzerland, he founded the Social Democratic Alliance, afterwards merged in the International. He instigated the Lyons outbreak in 1870, and his frank advocacy of pure materialistic anarchy brought him into collision with Marx and his followers. He died at Bern in 1876.