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Peter Kropotkin
Kropotkin Nadar.jpg
Kropotkin, by Nadar
Born (1842-12-09)December 9, 1842
Moscow, Russia
Died February 8, 1921(1921-02-08) (aged 78)
Dmitrov, Russia

Prince Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин) (9 December 1842 - 8 February 1921) was one of Russia's most important anarchists and one of the first advocates of anarchist communism. Because of his title of prince and his fame as an anarchist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was known by some as "the Anarchist Prince".

Books

  • The Conquest of Bread Project Gutenberg e-text, Project LibriVox audiobook
  • Fields, Factories and Workshops
  • P.Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons, London: Ward and Downey; 1887.
  • Memoirs of a Revolutionist, London : Smith, Elder; 1899. Kropotkin's own memoirs, which were also published in the United States in the same year and have appeared in a number of modern editions.
  • The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, London, William Heinemann, 1909, translated from the French by N.F. Dryhurst. e-text (in French)
  • Russian Literature: Ideals and Realities (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1915). Available online at the Anarchy Archives,
  • Ethics (unfinished). Included as first part of Origen y evolución de la moral (Spanish e-text)
  • In Russian and French Prisons. Online book. A criticism of the existence of prisons.

Articles

  • "Research on the Ice age", Notices of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, 1876.
  • "The desiccation of Eur-Asia", Geographical Journal, 23 (1904), 722-741.
  • Mr. Mackinder; Mr. Ravenstein; Dr. Herbertson; Prince Kropotkin; Mr. Andrews; Cobden Sanderson; Elisée Reclus, "On Spherical Maps and Reliefs: Discussion", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3. (Sep., 1903), pp. 294–299, JSTOR
  • "Baron Toll", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 23, No. 6. (Jun., 1904), pp. 770–772, JSTOR
  • "The population of Russia", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2. (Aug., 1897), pp. 196–202, JSTOR
  • "The old beds of the Amu-Daria", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3. (Sep., 1898), pp. 306–310, JSTOR

Pamphlets

  • Listen, Anarchist!
  • An Appeal To The Young
  • War.
  • Law and Authority.
  • The Place of Anarchy in Socialist Evolution.
  • Revolutionary Government.

Images for kids

  • Peter Kropotkin 1864

    Kropotkin in 1864

  • Kropotkin Nadar

    Kropotkin by Nadar

  • Krapotkin in Haparanda

    Kropotkin in Haparanda, 1917

  • Emma Goldman gives eulogy at Peter Kropotkin's funeral

    Kropotkin's friend and comrade Emma Goldman, accompanied by Alexander Berkman, delivers a eulogy before crowds at Kropotkin's funeral in Moscow.

  • La conquête du pain

    The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, influential work which presents the economic vision of anarcho-communism


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