After several years working as a bridge tender, short order cook, busker, construction laborer, and printer, among other jobs, Mark Leier went to university, receiving a PhD in history from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He now works in the history department of Simon Fraser University. His many books include Bakunin: The Creative Passion.
Divide and Conquer or Divide and Subdivide? How Not to Refight the First International
SKU: 9781629633831
Author: Mark Leier
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629633831
Published: 8/2017
Format: Pamphlet, ePub, PDF, mobi
Size: 8.5 x 5.5
Page count: 32
Subjects: Politics-Anarchism/History-Europe
Praise
“The life of Bakunin (1814–1876), the Russian architect of the
anarchist movement, provides a surprisingly enjoyable introduction to
the tumult of 19th-century radicalism. . . . Leier brings welcome
consideration to the real merits of the movement.”
—Publishers Weekly on Bakunin: The Creative Passion
“The time for Bakunin—the real one, not the caricature—has come
again, and Mark Leier has given us just the history that we need.
Wonderfully written, scholarly but also packed with fascinating tales
and fresh revelations, Bakunin: The Creative Passion is passion with purpose.”
—Paul Buhle
“Unfailingly informative and frequently exciting, Leier’s biography
reintroduces a fascinating revolutionary, knowledge of whose ideas helps
one place such recent phenomena as the World Trade Organization
protests in meaningful historical context.”
—Booklist on Bakunin: The Creative Passion
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