Bakunin Library Translations

Mikhail Bakunin

Undated

• Fragment of a letter (probably between 1835 and 1840)
• Fragment on Pan-Slavism and anarchism (“Me, I am an anarchist…”) [draft]
• Plan for a Revolutionary Organization (probably 1866) [draft]
• Contributions to the biography of Mikhail Bakunin (by Max Nettlau; includes memoir by Bakunin) [draft]

1824

• Letter (“My Dear Grand Papa;” June 29) [draft]

1835

• Text addressed to Aleksandra, Liubov, Tatiana and Varvara Aleksandrovna Bakunina (November, 1835)

1837

• Hamlet [draft]
• Fragment on life and spirit (September 4) [draft]

1843

• Letter to Arnold Ruge (May) [draft]

1845

• Letter to La Réforme (January) [draft]
• Dedication to Sofija Karlovna Mel’gunova (April 24) [draft]

1846

• Letter to Le Constitutionnel (March 19) [draft]

1847

• Speech on the 17th Anniversary of the Polish Revolution (December 14) [draft]

1848

• Fragment (“The revolution will circle the earth!”) [draft]
• Fundamental Principles of the New Slavic Politics (June) [draft]
• Letter to George Herwegh (“I believe neither in constitutions, nor in laws;” early August) [draft]
• Chapter from an erotic tale (October-November) [draft]
• Letter to Proudhon (December 12) [draft]

1861

• Letter to Nikolai Bakunin (February)

1862

• Letter to the “Working Man”

1863

• Speech at Malmö, Sweden, March 30 1863 [translation of translation]

1864

• Letter to Proudhon (November 11) [draft]

1865

• Fragments concerning Freemasonry – A (Summer-Fall 1865) [draft]
• Fragments concerning Freemasonry – B (Summer-Fall 1865) [draft]

1866

• Principles and Organization of the International Revolutionary Society. I. Object. II. Revolutionary Catechism (March) [draft]

1868

• The Program of “La Démocratie” (May 24) [draft]
• How to Ask Revolutionary Questions: Science and the People (September 1)
• Second Address to the Second Congress of Peace and Freedom (September 23) [draft]
• Collective protest of the dissident members of the 2nd Congress of Peace and Freedom (September 25)
• Program and Regulations of the International Association of the Socialist Democracy [draft]
• Speech of the Citizen Bakunin to a Public Assembly of Foreign Socialists (November 23) [draft]
• Letter to Karl Marx (December 22)
• Program of the International Society of the Revolution [draft]
• Program of the Russian Socialist Democracy [Narodnoe Delo] [draft]

1869

• A Few Words to My Young Brothers in Russia [draft]
• To the Compagnons of the International Workingmen’s Association of Locle and La Chaux de fond, Article 1 (February)
• Madame Léo and l’Egalité (March 13-27) [draft]
• The International Movement of the Workers (May 27, 1869)[draft]
• The Policy of the International (I-II, III-IV) (August 7-28) [draft]
• Counter-Proposal on Resistance Funds (August 14)]draft]
• Report of the Commission on the Question of Inheritance (August 27) [draft]
• On Cooperation (September 4) [draft]
• Two Speeches to the Congress of the IWA at Basle (September 18, October 1) [draft]

1870

• The Bears of Berne and the Bear of Saint-Petersburg [draft]
• The Death Penalty in Russia (February 7) [draft]
• Letter to Albert Richard (February 7) [draft]
• The Swiss Police (February 19) [draft]
• Letter to Albert Richard (March 12) [draft]
• Letter to Albert Richard (April 1) [draft]
• Pan-Slavism (April 9) [draft]
• Letter to Nikolay Ivanovich Zhukovsky (May 5) [draft]
• Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis (September 1-16) [draft]
• French Republic: Revolutionary Federation of the Communes (September 27) [draft]
• Philosophical Considerations on the Divine Phantom, the Real World and Man (November-December) (partial translation) [draft]
• The Reveille of the Peoples (1870) (fragment) [draft]

1870-71: The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution

• “The Social Revolution” (excerpt from The Knouto-Germanic Empire) [revised from Freedom]
• Part II: Historical Sophisms of the Doctrinaire School of the German Communists
  • [Opening paragraphs] [draft]
  • [On authority] [draft]

1871

• The Political Theology of Mazzini and the International (first part) [Sarah E. Holmes]
• The Principle of the State  [draft]
• Letter to Ogarev and Ozerov (April 5) [draft]
• Bourgeois Oligarchy (July)[draft]

1872

• To the Brothers of the Alliance in Spain (June 12-13) [draft]
• Nechayev: Is He a Political Criminal or Not? [draft]

1873

• Letter to Zamfir Arbore (September) [draft]

1874

• “Mémoire justificatif” (July 28-29) [draft]

1875

• Revolutionary Socialism in Russia [fragment] [ draft]
• Letter to Elisée Reclus (February 15) [draft]

1876

• On Democracy in France (fragment, dated January-February, 1876, but date uncertain; translation in progress)

César De Paepe

• To the Anti-Collectivists (1868) [draft]

James Guillaume

• Federalism (April) [draft]
• [On “God and the State”] (1908-1909)
• Proudhon: Communist (August 20-September 5) [draft]

Louise Michel

• Nadine (drama featuring Bakunin as a character)

Adhémar Schwitzguébel

• Collectivism (first article) (1872) [draft]