title: The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
author: Paul (ed). AVRICH
description: Documents of Revolution General Editor: Heinz Lubasz
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  Stateless Socialism: Anarchism  
    
  
  
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  # Stateless Socialism: Anarchism
  
  
  ### Mikhail Bakunin
  
  
  
  
  
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  Effect of the Great Principles Proclaimed by the French Revolution. From the
  time when the
  
  
  Revolution brought down to the masses its Gospel—not the mystic but the
  rational, not the heavenly but the
  
  
  earthly, not the divine but the human Gospel, the Gospel of the Rights of
  Man—ever since it proclaimed that
  
  
  all men are equal, that all men are entitled to liberty and equality, the
  masses of all European countries, of
  
  
  all the civilized world, awakening gradually from the sleep which had kept
  them in bondage ever since
  
  
  Christianity drugged them with its opium, began to ask themselves whether they
  too, had the right to
  
  
  equality, freedom, and humanity.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  As soon as this question wa