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a-a-ra-s-s-s-s-a-s-s-a-s-a-s- Welcome to the Russian History Podcast, episode 75, Mikhail Bakunin, the Collectivist Anarchist.

First off, I'd like to apologize to my regular listeners for missing the past week, but the holidays and work,

also known as the real world, caused me to fall behind.

But just to give you a heads up this time I'll be taking next week off to go to Texas to visit

my daughter but we'll be back on January 21st to resume our podcast series on Joseph Stalin. If you noticed the title of today's

podcast is changed slightly as will those that follow after I'm done with Vladimir Putin, I'll be shifting to focusing on people and events separate from the rulers of Russia.

Also, today's podcast is dedicated to my late Russian history professor, Dr. Paul

Avrich, and if anybody wants to know a little bit more about him, his last name is spelled Avar I C. He taught a class in

anarchism which was one of the more exciting classes we took in history aside from Russian history. But because of that, it

brings us to our man of the day, Mikhail Bakunin, the father of Collectivist Anarchism.

Born May 30, 1814 to a minor noble family,

Mikhail Bakunin's writings were to inspire revolutionaries from the Russian tyrant

Stalin.

The 1893 French bomber, Auguste, Vélant, to the founder of the American Black Panthers, Eldridge Cleaver, and to some of today's

Occupy Movement.

All of this from a man who is destined at birth to become a lifelong

military man and service to the Tsar of all the Russians. When Mikhail was a young boy, the options for any adult career, you might say, for an eldest

son of a minor noble, or really any non-Romanoff was really limited.

You could become a bureaucrat in the service of the Tsar, an officer in armed services of the Tsar or a cleric in the church in whose service of God and the Tsar was your life.

Of course you could move up or down the ranks based on the changes placed into effect in 1722

when Peter the Great created the table of ranks.

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