Synopses & Reviews
The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin's 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. The volume also includes a number of his shorter writings, including a hitherto untranslated chapter from his classic Memoirs of a Revolutionist.
Synopsis
An edition of Kropotkin's major work plus several of his shorter writings.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkinâs most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it. Marshall Shatzâs introduction traces the evolution of Kropotkinâs thought, and the volume also includes a number of his shorter writings.
Table of Contents
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.