巴枯宁是现代无政府主义的创始人物、也是俄国早期一位革命家。《上帝与国家》是他最有名的著作之一。在这部著作中他表明对上帝的信仰和对国家的信仰乃是人类自由的两大障碍。他认为，对上帝的信仰，只会使人们驯服于"被上帝选中的人的神圣权威"，失去批判精神、理智和意志。巴枯宁将国家称为"合法的、公开的暴政"，主张自由是对权威的叛逆，也就是对直接合法化了的权威--国家的叛逆。本书近六万余字，不分章节，稍显无序，

巴枯宁是无政府主义运动的重要领袖，开创者，与马克思同为“第一国际”领导人，后因信仰分道扬镳。 本书主要展现了巴枯宁的无政府主义思想，全书贯穿着一个主题思想：反对一切形式的国家。

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.