Swiss refuges -3/5 episode: Mikhail Bakounine
In the 19th century, there were many revolutions in Europe, and with them the repression which invariably fell on the followers of new political theories on the left. Switzerland enjoys an image of host land for many intellectuals who flee the hostility of their territory of origin. The country is considered an open -air laboratory where liberal, radical, then socialist and anarchist theories are lived on a daily basis. At that time, the creation of the federal state in 1848 was perceived as the only successful concretization of a liberal revolution.
In the middle of Europe, Switzerland therefore seems very promising and in particular for Mikhail Bakounine, a revolutionary Russian philosopher and theorist of political anarchy.
In the 19th century, there were many revolutions in Europe, and with them the repression which invariably fell on the followers of new political theories on the left. Switzerland enjoys an image of host land for many intellectuals who flee the hostility of their territory of origin. The country is considered an open -air laboratory where liberal, radical, then socialist and anarchist theories are lived on a daily basis. At that time, the creation of the federal state in 1848 was perceived as the only successful concretization of a liberal revolution.
In the middle of Europe, Switzerland therefore seems very promising and in particular for Mikhail Bakounine, a revolutionary Russian philosopher and theorist of political anarchy.
Florian Eitel is a historian, curator at the new Bienne museum and author of a thesis on the anarchists of Saint-Imier. He responds to Pierre Jenny.
Kristina Schulz is a historian at the University of Neuchâtel and takes us in the footsteps of Bakounine, at the microphone of Pierre Jenny.
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