Nikolai Utin
Nikolai Isaakovitch Utin (,
French:
Nicolas Outine; 8 August 1841 – 1 December 1883) was a Russian
socialist and
revolutionary. He grew up in
Saint Petersburg, and became a charismatic leader of the student movement. Because of his revolutionary activities, he spent most of his adult life in political exile in
Switzerland, where he participated in the founding of the Russian section of the
International Workingmen's Association and kept up correspondence with liberals and revolutionaries across Europe. In the conflict between
Mikhail Bakunin and
Karl Marx, he supported Marx, and through his involvement with
Geneva journals ''
Narodnoye delo'' and ''l'Égalité'' as a writer and editor, he played an important role in increasing support for Marx at Bakunin's expense. He was extremely influential in revolutionary circles until the breakup of the
First International in 1876, whereupon he withdrew from politics and returned to Russia.
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