Kropotkin: 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings

An edition of Kropotkin's major work plus several of his shorter writings.

Peter Kropotkin (Author), Marshall S. Shatz (Edited by)

9780521459907, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 10 August 1995

304 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.39 kg

The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin was the world's foremost spokesman of anarchism at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The Conquest of Bread is his most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it. Marshall Shatz's introduction to this edition traces Kropotkin's evolution as an anarchist, from his origins in the Russian aristocracy to his disillusionment with the Russian Revolution, and the volume also includes a hitherto untranslated chapter from his classic Memoirs of a Revolutionist, which contains colourful character-sketches of some of his fellow anarchists, as well as an article he wrote summarising the history of anarchism, and some of his views on the Revolution.

Introduction
Principal events in Kropotkin's life
Bibliographical note
Biographical synopses
1. The Conquest of Bread
2. 'Western Europe', from Memoirs of a Revolutionist
3. 'Anarchism', from The Encyclopaedia Britannica
4. Kropotkin on the Russian Revolution
Index.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]