Freedom or Death: The Theory and Practice of Mikhail Bakunin

by Felipe Corrêa Black Rose Books 4/1/2024, paperback SKU: 9781551648125   Translated from the Portuguese by Jonathan Payn; preface by Eloísa Benvenutti de Andrade and epilogue by Rocio Soledad Lescano. Freedom or Death is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of the life and work of the Russian revolutionary and titan in the history of anarchism Mikhail Aleksandrovitch Bakunin (1814–76). Brazilian scholar Felipe Corrêa offers in-depth analysis of Bakunin’s political theory produced between 1836 and 1876, anchoring it in his political-intellectual trajectory. The book is a history of Bakunin’s political thought that encompasses all of his writings, his most important letters, and dialogue with his principal interlocutors, as well as synthesizing all previous scholarship.Corrêa systematically divides Bakunin's works into three major periods – From Philosophy to Praxis (1836–43), Revolutionary Pan-Slavism (1844–63), and From Socialism to Anarchism (1864–76) – to provide historical con