Statism and Anarchy is the first complete and authoritative English translation of the last work by the great Russian anarchist Michael akunin.It was written in 1873,in the aftermath of the rise of the German Empire and the clash between Bakunin and Karl Marx in the First International.Badunin assesses the strength of a European state system dominated by Bismarcd and then,in the most remardable part of the book,he assils the Marxist alternative,predicting that "dictatorship of the proletariat"will in fact be a dictatorship over the proletariat and will produce a new class of socialist rulers.Bakunin outlines his alternative vision of an anarchist society and identifies the social forces he believes will achieve an anarchist revolution.Statism and Anarchy had an immediate influence on the "to the people"movement of Russian Populism,and Badunin`s ideas inspired significant anarchist movements in Spain ,Italy,Russia and elsewhere.

Editor`s note
Introduction
Principal events in Badunin`s life
Bibliographical note
Note on the translation
STATISM AND ANARCHY
Ⅰ
3-8:the persecution of the International;8-14:the supremacy of the German state over Europe;14-26:the decline of the Frence state;the anti-state sentiments of the French worders.
Ⅱ
26-33:the imminence of social revolution Spain andItaly;33-45:the weaknesses of the Austro-Hungarian Empire;the historical conflict between Slavs and Germans ;the anti-state nature of the Slavs;pan-Germanism and
pan-Slavism;45-51:social revolution and the liberation of the Slavs;51-56:the case of Serbia;56-60:the Czechs.
Ⅲ
60-77：German strength and Russian weakness;the dangers of pan-Slavism to the Russian state ;77-83:the character of the German military ;83-88:the Poles as a source of Russian vulnerability;89-97:the rise of German power on the Baltic;97-103:the folly of Russian expansion in the East
Ⅳ
103-106:the character of the German people;106-112:the French Revolution and the revival revival of Prussia;112-129:the rivalry of Austria and
Prussia:liberalism and reaction in Germany ,1815-1848.
Ⅴ
129-133:the influence of Hegelianism and the failure of revolution in Germany;133-136:life,not thought ,as the basisof anarchism;36-138: Hegelianism,statism,and Marxism
Ⅵ
138-143:the coming of the revolution of 1848 to Germany; the character and objectives of Lassalle;177-181:Marx`s program of state dictatorship;181-189:Lassalle,Marx,and the Social-Demcratic Party;the
schism in the International;189-197:the German nation`s support for the pan-German empire.
Appendix A
198--203:what the friends of the people should do;203-212:the imminence of social revolution in Russia;the people`s ideal and its defects:patriarchalism;212-217:the revolutionary youth andpopular insurrection
Appendix B
218-220:The Program of the Slavic Sectoion of Zurich.
biographical and other notes on the text
index