Radical thinkers: Mikhail Bukanin

Question 1

who was he?

Answer 1

both an anarchist (doesn’t recognise authority or other controlling systems) and a socialist
-been forced to live in exile

Question 2

what did he believe?

Answer 2

-put forward the view that private ownership of land should be replaced by collective ownership
-income should be based on the number of hours worked

Question 3

what did Bukanin help to introduce that made him significant?

Answer 3

-helped to introduce Marxism into Russia by translating Karl Marx’s (The communist Manifesto) into Russian in 1869

Question 4

why was Bukanin an opponent of Marx?

Answer 4

due to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and for his predictions that Marxist regimes would be one-party dictatorships ruling over the proletariat, not rule by the proletariat.

Question 5

in 1869 what did Bakunin and Sergei Nechaev write?

Answer 5

a manifesto- catechism of revolutionary
published in Switzerland and secretly smuggled into Russia

Question 6

what did ‘catechism of revolutionary’ say?

Answer 6

exhorted (encouraged) opponents of autocracy to be merciless in their pursuit of revolution, laying aside all other attachments-family,friends, love,gratitude and even order in order to pursue a revolutionary path