What struck me most was that Bakúnin’s influence was felt much less as the influence of an intellectual authority than as the influence of a moral personality.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “What struck me most was that Bakúnin’s influence was felt much less as the influence of an intellectual authority than…”
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Kropotkin notes that Bakúnin's influence was felt more as a moral personality than as an intellectual authority.
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