What is Sergey Nechayev?
{{Infobox person |name=Sergey Nechayev |image = Nechayev.png |caption= Sergey Gennadiyevich Nechayev |birth_date={{Birth date|1847|10|2|mf=y}} |birth_place=[[Ivanovo]], Vladimir Governorate, [[Imperial Russia]] |death_date = 21 November or 3 December 1882 |death_place = [[St. Petersburg]], Imperial Russia |death_cause = |resting_place = |resting_place_coordinates = |residence = |nationality = [[Russia]]n |other_names = Nechaev |known_for = [[Terrorism]]}} '''Sergey Nechayev''' <ref>{{lang-ru|Серге́й Генна́диевич Неча́ев}}</ref> (2 October 1847 &ndash; 21 November or 3 December 1882) was a [[Russians|Russian]] [[revolutionary]] [[terrorist]].<ref>Payne, Robert. 1951. ''Zero: the story of terrorism'', chapters 1{{ndash}}3. London & N.Y. Wingate</ref> He was a leader in the [[Nihilist movement]] and known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution by any means necessary, including [[murder]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Maegd-Soëp | first = Carolina | title = Trifonov and the drama of the Russian intelligentsia | url = https://archive.org/details/trifonovdramaofr0000maeg | publisher = Ghent State University, Russian Institute | year = 1990 | isbn = 90-73139-04-X |page=[https://archive.org/details/trifonovdramaofr0000maeg/page/79 79]}}</ref> == ''Catechism of a Revolutionary'' == Nechayev was the author or main author of a famous revolutionary pamphlet, called the ''Catechism of a Revolutionary''. The pamphlet bears the name of [[Mikhail Bakunin]], a well-known [[anarchist]], but it is thought all or most of it is by Nechayev.<ref>{{cite book|last=Leier|first=Mark|year=2006|pages=232|title=Bakunin: The Creative Passion|publisher=Seven Stories Press|isbn=978-1-58322-894-4}}</ref> The work called for total devotion to a revolutionary lifestyle.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wesson|first=Robert|title=Lenin's Legacy|url=https://archive.org/details/leninslegacystor0000wess|publisher=Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University|location=Stanford|year=1978|isbn=0-8179-6922-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/le