 From 1870 until his death in 1876, Bakunin wrote his longer works, "Statism and Anarchy" and "God and the State," but continued to directly participate in European worker and peasant movements.In 1870, he was involved in an insurrection in Lyon, France.He sought to take part in an anarchist insurrection in Bologna, Italy, but his declining health forced him to return to Switzerland in disguise.