 It is debated how much input Mikhail Bakunin had or if it is solely the work of Nechayev.The work called for total devotion to a revolutionary lifestyle.Its publication in the "Government Herald" in July 1871 as the manifesto of the Narodnaya Rasprava secret society ("Общество народной расправы") was one of the most dramatic events of Nechayev's revolutionary life, through its words and the actions it inspired establishing Nechayev's importance for the Nihilist movement.