“That Historical Family”: The Bakunin Archive and the Intimate Theater of History in Imperial Russia, 1780–1925.

Focuses on the Bakunin family archives and the history of Russian social thought in Imperial Russia. Description of the genesis of scholarly interest in the Bakunin family and its papers; Examination of the making of the archive of the family; Description of the process by which the Bakunin family papers were integrated into national collections.