swap_horiz Mikhail Bakunin Alternatives

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Simón Bolívar

Simón Bolívar was a 19th-century general and revolutionary instrumental in achieving independence for Venezuela and othe...

19TH Century General Venezuela Independence

9.4 Excellent

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José de San Martín

José de San Martín was a 19th-century military leader instrumental in South American independence movements. He spearhea...

19TH Century General Argentina Independence

9.2 Excellent

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi was a nineteenth-century Italian general and nationalist leader. His leadership during the 1860 Exped...

Italian Italy 19TH Century General

9.0 Excellent

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Miguel Hidalgo

Miguel Hidalgo was a Mexican priest whose 1810 Grito de Dolores began Mexico's war of independence against Spanish colon...

19TH Century Mexico Independence Rebel

8.6 Great

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Antonio José de Sucre

Antonio José de Sucre was a Venezuelan general under Bolívar who won the 1824 Battle of Ayacucho, securing Peru's indepe...

19TH Century General Venezuela Independence

8.6 Great

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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary who led the Red Army after 1917, opposed Stalin from exile, and was assassinate...

Russia 20TH Century Marxist Commander

8.6 Great

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José Rizal

Jose Rizal was a Filipino writer and reformist whose 1896 execution by Spanish authorities helped inspire the Philippine...

19TH Century Philippines Writer Independence

8.5 Great

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John Brown

John Brown was an American abolitionist whose 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry sought to spark an uprising by enslaved people...

USA 19TH Century Abolitionist Anti Slavery

8.4 Great

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José María Morelos

José María Morelos was a Mexican insurgent priest who led the independence movement after Hidalgo and convened the Congr...

19TH Century Mexico Independence Priest

8.4 Great

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Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian geographer and anarchist theorist whose 1902 book Mutual Aid argued cooperation was centra...

Russia 19TH Century Mutual Aid Anarchist

8.1 Great

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French thinker who called property theft in 1840 and became the first major theorist to cal...

France 19TH Century Anarchist Theorist

7.8 Good

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Alexander Herzen

Alexander Herzen was a Russian émigré writer who published The Bell in London from 1857, influencing populist and social...

Russia Russian 19TH Century Writer

7.8 Good

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Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Russian radical philosopher and writer Nikolai Chernyshevsky profoundly influenced the nation's socialist movement throu...

Russian 19TH Century Writer Socialist

7.6 Good

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Louise Michel

Louise Michel was a French anarchist and teacher who fought for the Paris Commune in 1871 and was deported to New Caledo...

France 19TH Century Feminist Anarchist

7.3 Good

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Apolinario Mabini

Apolinario Mabini was a Filipino revolutionary thinker and statesman who shaped the 1899 First Philippine Republic and h...

19TH Century Philippines Independence Theorist

7.2 Good

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Vera Figner

Vera Figner was a Russian Narodnaya Volya member involved in the movement that assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 1881, t...

Russia Organizer 19TH Century Populist

6.7 Fair

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Vera Zasulich

Vera Zasulich was a Russian revolutionary who shot official Fyodor Trepov in 1878, was acquitted, and later helped found...

Russia Russian 19TH Century Marxist

6.6 Fair

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Sofia Perovskaya

Sofia Perovskaya was a Russian Narodnaya Volya organizer who helped plan the 1881 assassination of Tsar Alexander II and...

Russia Organizer 19TH Century Populist

6.6 Fair

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Sergei Nechayev

Russian nihilist revolutionary who authored the Catechism of a Revolutionary (1869), advocating ruthless, amoral tactics...

Russian 19TH Century Radical Nihilist

5.8 Mediocre

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Sergey Nechayev

Sergey Nechayev was a Russian revolutionary conspirator whose 1869 Catechism of a Revolutionary influenced debates on po...

Russia 19TH Century Radical Nihilist

5.5 Mediocre