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.