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Bakunin, Nechaev, and the "Catechism of a Revolutionary": The Case for Joint Authorship

Bakunin, Nechaev, and the "Catechism of a Revolutionary": The Case for Joint Authorship P H I L I P P O M P E R Bakunin, Nechaev, a n d the "Catechism o f a R e v o l u t i o n a r y " : The Case f o r J o i n t A u t h o r s h i p Ten years ago Michael Confino presented the first new evidence about the authorship o f the "Catechism o f a Revolutionary" to appear in several d e c a d e . In a copy o f a letter written by Michael Bakunin and dated 2 June 1870, he found the following: "I called you an abrek and your catechism the catechism o f an abrek."2 This and the remainder o f the letter leave no doubt in a reader's mind that Bakunin was trying to dissociate himself from the "Catechism" more than a year before it became a public document. Confino's publication o f the letter and his interesting analysis o f the sources o f some o f the ideas and language o f the "Catechism" tended to shift scholarly opinion in the direction of Nechaev's exclusive authorship. Confino http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Bakunin, Nechaev, and the "Catechism of a Revolutionary": The Case for Joint Authorship

POMPER, PHILIP
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 10 (4): 535 – Jan 1, 1976
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© 1976 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/221023976X00053
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P H I L I P P O M P E R Bakunin, Nechaev, a n d the "Catechism o f a R e v o l u t i o n a r y " : The Case f o r J o i n t A u t h o r s h i p Ten years ago Michael Confino presented the first new evidence about the authorship o f the "Catechism o f a Revolutionary" to appear in several d e c a d e . In a copy o f a letter written by Michael Bakunin and dated 2 June 1870, he found the following: "I called you an abrek and your catechism the catechism o f an abrek."2 This and the remainder o f the letter leave no doubt in a reader's mind that Bakunin was trying to dissociate himself from the "Catechism" more than a year before it became a public document. Confino's publication o f the letter and his interesting analysis o f the sources o f some o f the ideas and language o f the "Catechism" tended to shift scholarly opinion in the direction of Nechaev's exclusive authorship. Confino

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