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Peter Kropotkin Kropotkin c. 1900 (aged 57) Born Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842-12-09)9 December 1842 Moscow, Russian Empire Died 8 February 1921(1921-02-08) (aged 78) Dmitrov, Russian SFSR Education Corps of Pages (1857–1862) Saint Petersburg Imperial University (1867; no degree)[1] Notable work The Conquest of Bread Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Fields, Factories and Workshops Spouse(s) Sofia Ananyeva-Rabinovich Era 19th-century philosophy 20th-century philosophy Region Russian philosophy Western philosophy School Anarchism Communism Socialism Main interests Political philosophy Political history Economics Ethics Darwinian theory Notable ideas Political, ethical and economic theory of anarcho-communism Mutual aid Criticism of wage-labour Four-hour workday Voluntary communes Influences Bakunin Darwin Freud Guyau Marx Nietzsche Proudhon Reclus Influenced Berkman Black Bookchin[2] Chomsky[3] Goldman Guérin Gould Kafka[4] Kōtoku[5] Makhno[6] Malatesta Rocker[7] Tolstoy[8] Ward Woodcock Wilde[9] Žižek Scientific career Fields Geography Institutions Russian Geographical Society Academic advisors Boleslar Kazimirovich Kukel Signature Part of the Politics series on Anarchism Schools of thought Black Christian Collectivist Communist Egoist Epistemological Existentialist Feminist Green Independence Individualist Insurrectionary Jewish Mutualist Naturist Pacifist Philosophical Platformist Post-anarchism Post-colonial Post-left Primitivist Queer Social Syndicalist Synthesist Without adjectives Theory Practice Anarchy Anarchist Black Cross Anarchist criminology Anationalism Anti-authoritarianism Anti-capitalism Anti-militarism Affinity group Autonomous social center Black bloc Classless society Class struggle Communes Consensus democracy Conscientious objector Decentralization Deep ecology Direct action Direct democracy Especifismo Expropriative anarchism Free association Free love Freed market Freethought Horizontalidad Illegalism Individualism Individual reclamation Isocracy Law Magonism Mutual aid Participatory politics Permanent autonomous zone Prefigurative politics Proletarian internationalism Propaganda of the deed Refusal of work Revolution Rewilding Security culture Self-ownership Social ecology Somatherapy Spontaneous order Squatting Temporary autonomous zone Union of egoists People Armand Bakunin Berkman Bonanno Bookchin Chomsky Cleyre Durruti Faure Godwin Goldman Ferrer Kropotkin Landauer Magón Makhno Malatesta Michel Most Proudhon Rocker Santillán Spooner Stirner Thoreau Tolstoy Tucker Volin Ward Warren Zerzan Issues Animal rights Veganism Capitalism Anarcho-capitalism Right-libertarianism Criticism Cryptography Education Islam Left-wing Lifestylism Love and sex Marxism Nationalism National-anarchism Orthodox Judaism Religion Violence History Paris Commune Spanish Regional Federation of the IWA Cantonal Revolution Hague Congress International Conference of Rome Trial of the Thirty Haymarket affair May Day Anarchist Exclusion Act Congress of Amsterdam Tragic Week High Treason Incident Manifesto of the Sixteen Individualist anarchism in the United States 1919 United States bombings Biennio Rosso German Revolution of 1918–1919 Bavarian Council Republic Kronstadt rebellion Third Russian Revolution Free Territory Amakasu Incident Escuela Moderna Individualist anarchism in Europe Spanish Revolution of 1936 Barcelona May Days Red inverted triangle Labadie Collection May 1968 Provo LIP Kate Sharpley Library Australian Anarchist Centenary Carnival Against Capital 1999 Seattle WTO protests Occupy movement Culture A las Barricadas Anarchist Bookfair Anarcho-punk Arts Culture jamming DIY ethic Films Freeganism Glossary Independent Media Center The Internationale Jewish anarchism "Land and liberty" Lifestylism "No gods, no masters" Popular education "Property is theft!" 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He was also an activist, essayist, researcher and writer. Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended a military school and later served as an officer in Siberia, where he participated in several geological expeditions. He was imprisoned for his activism in 1874 and managed to escape two years later. He spent the next 41 years in exile in Switzerland, France (where he was imprisoned for almost four years) and England. While in exile, he gave lectures and published widely on anarchism and geography.[13] Kropotkin returned to Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917, but he was disappointed by the Bolshevik state. Kropotkin was a proponent of a decentralised communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations of self-governing communities and worker-run enterprises. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, but also Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, his principal scientific offering. He contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition[14] and left unfinished a work on anarchist ethical philosophy. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Geographical expeditions in Siberia 1.3 Activism in Switzerland and France 1.4 Activism in Russia and arrest 1.5 Escape and exile 1.6 Return to Russia 1.7 Death 2 Philosophy 2.1 Critique of capitalism 2.2 Cooperation and competition 2.3 Mutual aid 2.4 Self-sufficiency 3 Works 3.1 Books 3.2 Pamphlets 3.3 Articles 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 Further reading 7.1 Books on Kropotkin 7.2 Journal articles 8 External links Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Pyotr Kropotkin was born in Moscow, into an ancient Russian princely family. His father, major general Prince Alexei Petrovich Kropotkin, was a descendant of the Smolensk branch,[15] of the Rurik dynasty which had ruled Russia before the rise of the Romanovs. Kropotkin's father owned large tracts of land and nearly 1,200 male serfs in three provinces.[16] His mother was the daughter of a Cossack general.[16] Kropotkin dropped his princely title at age 12 "[u]nder the influence of republican teachings" and "even rebuked his friends, when they so referred to him."[17] In 1857, at age 14, Kropotkin enrolled in the Corps of Pages at St. Petersburg.[18] Only 150 boys – mostly children of nobility belonging to the court – were educated in this privileged corps, which combined the character of a military school endowed with exclusive rights and of a court institution attached to the Imperial Household. Kropotkin's memoirs detail the hazing and other abuse of pages for which the Corps had become notorious.[19] In Moscow, Kropotkin developed what would become a lifelong interest in the condition of the peasantry. Although his work as a page for Tsar Alexander II made Kropotkin skeptical about the tsar's "liberal" reputation,[20] Kropotkin was greatly pleased by the tsar's decision to emancipate the serfs in 1861.[21] In St. Petersburg, he read widely on his own account and gave special attention to the works of the French encyclopædists and French history. The years 1857–1861 witnessed a growth in the intellectual forces of Russia, and Kropotkin came under the influence of the new liberal-revolutionary literature, which largely expressed his own aspirations.[22] In 1862, Kropotkin graduated first in his class from the Corps of Pages and entered the Tsarist army.[23] The members of the corps had the prescriptive right to choose the regiment to which they would be attached. Following a desire to "be someone useful", Kropotkin chose the difficult route of serving in a Cossack regiment in eastern Siberia.[23] For some time, he was aide de camp to the governor of Transbaikalia at Chita. Later he was appointed attaché for Cossack affairs to the governor-general of East Siberia at Irkutsk.[24] Geographical expeditions in Siberia[edit] The administrator under whom Kropotkin served, General Boleslar Kazimirovich Kukel, was a liberal and a democrat who maintained personal connections to various Russian radical political figures exiled to Siberia. These included the writer Mikhail Larionovitch Mikhailov, whom Kropotkin (on the orders of Kukel) once warned about the Moscow police's investigation into his political activities in confinement. Mikhailov later gave the young Tsarist functionary a copy of a book by the French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon — Kropotkin's first introduction to anarchist ideas. Kukel was later dismissed from his administrative position, being transferred, instead, to state-sponsored scientific endeavors.[25] In 1864, Kropotkin accepted a position in a geographical survey expedition, crossing North Manchuria from Transbaikalia to the Amur, and soon was attached to another expedition up the Sungari River into the heart of Manchuria. The expeditions yielded valuable geographic results. The impossibility of obtaining any real administrative reforms in Siberia now induced Kropotkin to devote himself almost entirely to scientific exploration, in which he continued to be highly successful.[26] Kropotkin continued his political reading, including works by such prominent liberal thinkers as John Stuart Mill and Alexander Herzen. These readings, along with his experiences among peasants in Siberia, led him to declare himself an anarchist by 1872.[27] In 1867, Kropotkin resigned his commission in the army and returned to St. Petersburg, where he entered the Saint Petersburg Imperial University to study mathematics, becoming at the same time secretary to the geography section of the Russian Geographical Society.[28] His departure from a family tradition of military service prompted his father to disinherit him, "leaving him a 'prince' with no visible means of support".[29] In 1871, Kropotkin explored the glacial deposits of Finland and Sweden for the Society.[28] In 1873, he published an important contribution to science, a map and paper in which he showed that the existing maps entirely misrepresented the physical features of Asia; the main structural lines were in fact from southwest to northeast, not from north to south or from east to west as had been previously supposed. During this work, he was offered the secretaryship of the Society, but he had decided that it was his duty not to work at fresh discoveries but to aid in diffusing existing knowledge among the people at large. Accordingly, he refused the offer and returned to St. Petersburg, where he joined the revolutionary party.[30] Activism in Switzerland and France[edit] Kropotkin in 1864 Kropotkin visited Switzerland in 1872 and became a member of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA) at Geneva. However, he found that he did not like IWA's style of socialism. Instead, he studied the programme of the more radical Jura federation at Neuchâtel and spent time in the company of the leading members, and adopted the creed of anarchism.[31] Activism in Russia and arrest[edit] On returning to Russia, Kropotkin's friend Dmitri Klements introduced him to the Circle of Tchaikovsky, a socialist/populist group created in 1872. Kropotkin worked to spread revolutionary propaganda among peasants and workers, and acted as a bridge between the Circle and the aristocracy. Throughout this period, Kropotkin maintained his position within the Geographical Society to provide cover for his activities.[32] In 1872, Kropotkin was arrested and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress for subversive political activity, as a result of his work with the Circle of Tchaikovsky. Because of his aristocratic background, he received special privileges in prison, such as permission to continue his geographical work in his cell. He delivered his report on the subject of the Ice Age in 1876, where he argued that it had taken place in not as distant a past as initially thought.[33] Escape and exile[edit] In 1876, just before his trial, Kropotkin was moved to a low-security prison in St. Petersburg, from which he escaped with help from his friends. On the night of the escape, Kropotkin and his friends celebrated by dining in one of the finest restaurants in St. Petersburg, assuming correctly that the police would not think to look for them there. After this, he boarded a boat and headed to England.[34] After a short stay there, he moved to Switzerland where he joined the Jura Federation. In 1877, he moved to Paris, where he helped start the socialist movement. In 1878, he returned to Switzerland where he edited the Jura Federation's revolutionary newspaper Le Révolté and published various revolutionary pamphlets.[35] Kropotkin by Nadar In 1881, shortly after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, he was expelled from Switzerland. After a short stay at Thonon (Savoy), he stayed in London for nearly a year.[36] He attended the Anarchist Congress in London from 14 July 1881.[37] Other delegates included Marie Le Compte, Errico Malatesta, Saverio Merlino, Louise Michel, Nicholas Tchaikovsky, and Émile Gautier. While respecting "complete autonomy of local groups", the congress defined propaganda actions that all could follow and agreed that propaganda by the deed was the path to social revolution.[37] The Radical of 23 July 1881 reported that the congress met on 18 July at the Cleveland Hall, Fitzroy Square, with speeches by Marie Le Compte, "the transatlantic agitator", Louise Michel, and Kropotkin.[38] Later, Le Compte and Kropotkin gave talks to the Homerton Social Democratic Club and the Stratford Radical and Dialectical Club.[39] Kropotkin returned to Thonon in late 1882. Soon he was arrested by the French government, tried at Lyon, and sentenced by a police-court magistrate (under a special law passed on the fall of the Paris Commune) to five years' imprisonment, on the ground that he had belonged to the IWA (1883). The French Chamber repeatedly agitated on his behalf, and he was released in 1886. He was invited to Britain by Henry Seymour and Charlotte Wilson and all three worked on Seymour's newspaper The Anarchist. Soon after, Wilson and Kropotkin split from the individualist anarchist Seymour and found the anarchist newspaper Freedom Press, which continues to this day. Kropotkin was a regular contributor, while Wilson was integral to the administrative and financial running of the paper until she resigned its editorship in 1895. He settled near London, living at various times in Harrow, then Bromley, where his daughter and only child, Alexandra, was born on 15 April 1887.[40][41] He also lived for many years in Brighton.[42] While living in London, Kropotkin became friends with a number of prominent English-speaking socialists, including William Morris and George Bernard Shaw.[43] In 1916, Kropotkin and Jean Grave drafted a document called Manifesto of the Sixteen, which advocated an Allied victory over Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War. Because of the manifesto, Kropotkin found himself isolated by the mainstream[44] of the anarchist movement.[45] Return to Russia[edit] Kropotkin in Haparanda, 1917 In 1917, after the February Revolution, Kropotkin returned to Russia after 40 years of exile. His arrival was greeted by cheering crowds of tens of thousands of people. He was offered the ministry of education in the Provisional Government, which he promptly refused, feeling that working with them would be a violation of his anarchist principles.[46] Kropotkin and Pavel Milyukov His enthusiasm for the changes occurring in the Russian Empire expanded when Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution. He had this to say about the October Revolution: "During all the activities of the present revolutionary political parties we must never forget that the October movement of the proletariat, which ended in a revolution, has proved to everybody that a social revolution is within the bounds of possibility. And this struggle, which takes place worldwide, has to be supported by all means – all the rest is secondary. The party of the Bolsheviks was right to adopt the old, purely proletarian name of 'Communist Party'. Even if it does not achieve everything that it would like to, it will nevertheless enlighten the path of the civilised countries for at least a century. Its ideas will slowly be adopted by the peoples in the same way as in the nineteenth century the world adopted the ideas of the Great French Revolution. That is the colossal achievement of the October Revolution. [...] I see the October Revolution as an attempt to bring the preceding February Revolution to its logical conclusion with a transition to communism and federalism."[47] Kropotkin's friend and comrade Emma Goldman, accompanied by Alexander Berkman, delivers a eulogy before crowds at Kropotkin's funeral in Moscow Although he led a life on the margins of the revolutionary upheaval, Kropotkin became increasingly critical of the methods of the Bolshevik dictatorship and went on to express these feelings in writing. "Unhappily, this effort has been made in Russia under a strongly centralized party dictatorship. This effort was made in the same way as the extremely centralized and Jacobin endeavor of Babeuf. I owe it to you to say frankly that, according to my view, this effort to build a communist republic on the basis of a strongly centralized state communism under the iron law of party dictatorship is bound to end in failure. We are learning to know in Russia how not to introduce communism, even with a people tired of the old regime and opposing no active resistance to the experiments of the new rulers."[48] Death[edit] Kropotkin died of pneumonia on 8 February 1921, in the city of Dmitrov, and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. Thousands of people marched in his funeral procession, including, with Vladimir Lenin's approval,[49] anarchists carrying banners with anti-Bolshevik slogans.[50] The occasion, the last public demonstration of anarchists in Soviet Russia, saw engaged speeches by Emma Goldman and Aron Baron. In some versions of Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread,[51] the mini-biography states that this would be the last time that Kropotkin's supporters would be allowed to freely rally in public. In 1957, the Dvorets Sovetov station of the Moscow Metro was renamed Kropotkinskaya in his honor.[52] Philosophy[edit] Part of a series on Anarcho-communism Concepts Anarchy Anti-authoritarianism Anti-capitalism Anti-statism Class consciousness Class conflict Classless society Common ownership Common resources Commune Consensus democracy Co-operative economics Direct democracy Egalitarian community Free association "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" General strike Gift economy Give-away shop Market abolitionism Mutual aid Prefigurative politics Primitive communism Proletarian internationalism Stateless communism Stateless society Workers' control Worker cooperative Workers' council Wage slavery People Déjacque Kropotkin Cafiero Covelli Malatesta Goldman Galleani Magón Berkman Bleikhman Durruti Volin Faure Makhno Bookchin Meltzer Organizational forms Insurrectionary anarchism Platformism Synthesis federations Theoretical works The Conquest of Bread Fields, Factories and Workshops Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Anarchism and Other Essays Now and After The Right to Be Greedy Post-Scarcity Anarchism Related topics Anarchism Autonomism Communization Council communism Left communism Libertarian Marxism Libertarian socialism Social anarchism  Anarchism portal  Communism portal  Politics portal v t e Part of a series on Libertarian socialism Political concepts Anti-authoritarianism Anti-Leninism Anti-Stalinist left Anti-statism Class conflict Classless society Community centre Consensus democracy Commune Decentralization Direct democracy Dual power Egalitarian community Free association Free love Free school General strike Libertarian possibilism Mutual aid Post-leftism Prefigurative politics Proletarian internationalism Refusal of work State capitalism Stateless society Squatting Ultra-leftism Wage slavery Workers' control Workers' council Economics Anarchist economics Anti-capitalism Anti-consumerism Cooperative Common ownership Common-pool resource Cost the limit of price Decentralized planning Economic democracy Free market Freed market Gift economy Give-away shop Guilds Inclusive Democracy Industrial democracy Laissez-faire Market abolitionism Really Really Free Market Social economy Social enterprise Socialization Socialist economics Use value Worker cooperative People Albert Andrews Avrich Bakunin Berkman Boggs Bonanno Bookchin Breton Camus Castoriadis Chomsky Czolgosz Dauvé Day Debord Dunayevskaya Durruti Fanelli Federici Ferrer Fotopoulos Fourier Godwin Goldman Goodman Graeber Greene Gorz Guattari Guérin Herzen Heywood (Angela) Heywood (Ezra) Hodgskin Hoffman Holloway James Korsch Kropotkin Landauer Lefort Liebknecht Lorenzo Lubbe Luxemburg Magón Makhno Malatesta Marcos Marcuse Margall Marx Mattick Michel Montseny Morris Negri Öcalan Pallis Pankhurst Pannekoek Parsons (Albert) Parsons (Lucy) Perlman Petrichenko Proudhon Reich Rocker Rühle Sacco Santillán Sartre Spooner Tolstoy Thompson Tucker Vaneigem Vanzetti Varoufakis Ward Warrem Wilde Zerzan Zinn Philosophies and tendencies Anarchist tendencies Anarchism Green Primitivism Individualism Egoism Free-market Organisational Insurrectionism Platformism Mutualism Syndicalism Synthesism Philosophical Social Collectivism Communism Magonism Pacifism Religious Christian Muslim Jewish Marxist tendencies Marxism Classical Marxism Libertarian Marxism Autonomism Chaulieu–Montal tendency De Leonism Johnson–Forest tendency Left communism Bordigism Communization Council communism Lettrism Situationism Marxist humanism Western Marxism Frankfurt School Freudo-Marxism Other tendencies Cantonalism Communalism Democratic confederalism Dialectical naturalism Libertarian municipalism Social ecology Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Guild socialism Inclusive Democracy Market socialism Left-wing laissez-faire Left-wing market anarchism Neozapatismo New Left Participism Utopian socialism Fourierism Significant events Diggers Enragés Paris Commune Haymarket affair Assassination of William McKinley Strandzha Commune Russian Revolution Bavarian Soviet Republic German Revolution of 1918–1919 Biennio Rosso Ukrainian War of Independence Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks (Kronstadt rebellion) Escuela moderna Mexican Revolution Reichstag fire Spanish Revolution of 1936 Uprising of 1953 in East Germany Hungarian Revolution of 1956 May 1968 events in France Prague Spring Left communism in China Hippie movement Autonomia Operaia Chiapas conflict 1999 Seattle WTO protests Argentinazo Occupy movement Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015 rebellion) Iran–PJAK conflict Rojava conflict Related topics Anarchism Anarchism and socialism Communism Left-libertarianism Libertarianism Marxism Social democracy Socialism Syndicalism  Anarchism portal  Socialism portal  Politics portal v t e Critique of capitalism[edit] Kropotkin pointed out what he considered to be the fallacies of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism. He believed they create poverty and artificial scarcity, and promote privilege. Instead, he proposed a more decentralized economic system based on mutual aid, mutual support, and voluntary cooperation. He argued that the tendencies for this kind of organization already exist, both in evolution and in human society.[53] Kropotkin disagreed with the Marxist critique of capitalism, including the labour theory of value, believing there was no necessary link between work performed and the values of commodities. Instead, his attack on the institution of wage labour was based more on the power employers exerted over employees than the extraction of surplus value from their labour. Kropotkin claimed this power was made possible by the state's protection of private ownership of productive resources.[54] Cooperation and competition[edit] In 1902, Kropotkin published his book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, which gave an alternative view of animal and human survival. At the time, some "social Darwinists" such as Francis Galton proffered a theory of interpersonal competition and natural hierarchy. Instead, Kropotkin argued that "it was an evolutionary emphasis on cooperation instead of competition in the Darwinian sense that made for the success of species, including the human".[55] In the last chapter, he wrote: In the animal world we have seen that the vast majority of species live in societies, and that they find in association the best arms for the struggle for life: understood, of course, in its wide Darwinian sense – not as a struggle for the sheer means of existence, but as a struggle against all natural conditions unfavourable to the species. The animal species [...] in which individual struggle has been reduced to its narrowest limits [...] and the practice of mutual aid has attained the greatest development [...] are invariably the most numerous, the most prosperous, and the most open to further progress. The mutual protection which is obtained in this case, the possibility of attaining old age and of accumulating experience, the higher intellectual development, and the further growth of sociable habits, secure the maintenance of the species, its extension, and its further progressive evolution. The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay.[56] Kropotkin did not deny the presence of competitive urges in humans, but did not consider them the driving force of history.[57]:262 He believed that seeking out conflict proved to be socially beneficial only in attempts to destroy unjust, authoritarian institutions such as the State or the Church, which he saw as stifling human creativity and impeding human instinctual drive towards cooperation.[58] Kropotkin's observations of cooperative tendencies in indigenous peoples (pre-feudal, feudal, and those remaining in modern societies) led him to conclude that not all human societies were based on competition as were those of industrialized Europe, and that many societies exhibited cooperation among individuals and groups as the norm. He also concluded that most pre-industrial and pre-authoritarian societies (where he claimed that leadership, central government, and class did not exist) actively defend against the accumulation of private property by equally distributing within the community a person's possessions when they died, or by not allowing a gift to be sold, bartered or used to create wealth, in the form of a gift economy.[59] Mutual aid[edit] The Conquest of Bread, influential work by Kropotkin which presents the economic vision of anarcho-communism In his 1892 book The Conquest of Bread, Kropotkin proposed a system of economics based on mutual exchanges made in a system of voluntary cooperation. He believed that in a society that is socially, culturally, and industrially developed enough to produce all the goods and services it needs, there would be no obstacle, such as preferential distribution, pricing or monetary exchange, to prevent everyone to take what they need from the social product. He supported the eventual abolition of money or tokens of exchange for goods and services.[60] Kropotkin believed that Mikhail Bakunin's collectivist economic model was just a wage system by a different name[61] and that such a system would breed the same type of centralization and inequality as a capitalist wage system. He stated that it is impossible to determine the value of an individual's contributions to the products of social labour, and thought that anyone who was placed in a position of trying to make such determinations would wield authority over those whose wages they determined.[62] According to Kirkpatrick Sale, "[w]ith Mutual Aid especially, and later with Fields, Factories, and Workshops, Kropotkin was able to move away from the absurdist limitations of individual anarchism and no-laws anarchism that had flourished during this period and provide instead a vision of communal anarchism, following the models of independent cooperative communities he discovered while developing his theory of mutual aid. It was an anarchism that opposed centralized government and state-level laws as traditional anarchism did, but understood that at a certain small scale, communities and communes and co-ops could flourish and provide humans with a rich material life and wide areas of liberty without centralized control."[55] Self-sufficiency[edit] Kropotkin's focus on local production led to his view that a country should strive for self-sufficiency – manufacture its own goods and grow its own food, lessening dependence on imports. To these ends, he advocated irrigation and greenhouses to boost local food production.[63] Works[edit] Books[edit] In Russian and French Prisons, London: Ward and Downey; 1887. The Conquest of Bread (Paris, 1892) Project Gutenberg e-text, Project LibriVox audiobook The Great French Revolution, 1789–1793 (French original: Paris, 1893; English translation: London, 1909). e-text (in French), Anarchist Library e-text (in English) The Terror in Russia, 1909, RevoltLib e-text Words of a Rebel, 1885, Fields, Factories and Workshops (London and New York, 1898). Memoirs of a Revolutionist, London : Smith, Elder; 1899. Anarchist Library e-text, Anarchy Archives e-text Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (London, 1902) Project Gutenberg e-text, Project LibriVox audiobook Russian Literature: Ideals and Realities (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1905). Anarchy Archives e-text The State: Its Historic Role, published 1946, Ethics: Origin and Development (unfinished). Included as first part of Origen y evolución de la moral (Spanish e-text) Modern Science and Anarchism, 1930, * Pamphlets[edit] An Appeal to the Young (1880) Communism and Anarchy (1901) Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles (1887) The Industrial Village of the Future (1884) Law and Authority (1886) The Coming Anarchy (1887) The Place of Anarchy in Socialist Evolution (1886) The Wage System (1920) The Commune of Paris (1880) Anarchist Morality (1898) Expropriation The Great French Revolution and Its Lesson (1909) Process Under Socialism (1887) Are Prisons Necessary? Chapter X from "In Russian and French Prisons" (1887) The Coming War (1913) Wars and Capitalism (1914) Revolutionary Government (1892) The Scientific Basis of Anarchy (1887) The Fortress Prison of St. Petersburg (1883) Advice to Those About to Emigrate (1893) Some of the Resources of Canada (1898) Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896) Revolutionary Studies (1892) Direct Action of Environment and Evolution (1920) The Present Crisis in Russia (1901) The Spirit of Revolt (1880) The State: Its Historic Role (1897) On Economics Selected Passages from his Writings (1898–1913) On the Teaching of Physiography (1893) War! (1914) Articles[edit] "The Constitutional Agitation in Russia," 1905. "Brain Work and Manual Work," 1890. "Manifesto of the Sixteen," 1916. "Organized Vengeance Called 'Justice.'" "A Proposed Communist Settlement: A New Colony for Tyneside or Wearside." "What Geography Ought to Be," 1885. "Organized Vengeance Called 'Justice'" "On Order" "Maxím Górky," 1904 "Research on the Ice age", Notices of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, 1876. "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 "Russian Schools and the Holy Synod," 1902 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 "The desiccation of Eur-Asia", Geographical Journal, 23 (1904), 722–41. "Finland" in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911 (in part; with Joseph R. Fisher and John Scott Keltie) "Finland: A Rising Nationality," Nineteenth Century, 1885 “Anarchism” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911 "Anti-militarism. Was it properly understood?", Freedom, vol.XXVIII, no. 307 (November 1914), pp. 82–83. "An open letter of Peter Kropotkin to the Western workingmen", The Railway Review (29 June 1917), p. 4. See also[edit] Anarchism portal Biography portal Communism portal Libertarianism portal Politics portal Russia portal Science portal Socialism portal Anarcho-communism Anarchist schools of thought Katorga Kropotkin family List of Russian anarchists Notes[edit] ^ According to the new style calendar (modern Gregorian), Kropotkin was born on 9 December 1842. According to the old style (Old Julian) calendar used in the Russian Empire at the time, it was 27 November 1842. Russia converted from the old to the new style calendar in 1918. References[edit] ^ Slatter, John. "Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeyevich." Encyclopedia of Russian History. 2004. Retrieved 1 March 2016 from Encyclopedia.com. ^ Bookchin, Murray. The Ecology of Freedom. Oakland: AK Press, 2005. p. 11. ^ "Noam Chomsky Reading List". Left Reference Guide. 18 January 2009. Retrieved 8 January 2014. ^ Richard T. Gray, ed. (2005). A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 170. ISBN 9780313303753. ^ Louis G. Perez, ed. (2013). "Kōtoku Shūsui (1871–1911)". Japan at War: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 190. ISBN 9781598847420. ^ Winfried Scharlau (2011). Who is Alexander Grothendieck? Part 1: Anarchy. Books on Demand. p. 30. ISBN 9783842340923. In June 1918 Makhno visited his idol Peter Kropotkin in Moscow... ^ Mina Graur (1997). An Anarchist Rabbi: The Life and Teachings of Rudolf Rocker. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 22–36. ISBN 978-0-312-17273-2. ^ Leo Tolstoy, MobileReference (2007). Works of Leo Tolstoy. MobileReference. ISBN 9781605011561. ^ Peter Marshall (2009). Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. PM Press. p. 177. ISBN 9781604862706. ^ "Kropotkin". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ^ Peter Kropotkin (1995). 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings. Cambridge University Press. p. viii. ISBN 9780521459907. ^ Stoddart, D. R. (1975). "Kropotkin, Reclus, and 'Relevant' Geography". Area. 7 (3): 188–190. JSTOR 20001005. ^ Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 414. ISBN 9780415252256. ^ Peter Kropotkin entry on 'anarchism' from the Encyclopædia Britannica (eleventh ed.), Internet Archive. Public Domain text. ^ Woodcock, George & Avakumović, Ivan (1990). Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel. Black Rose Books. p. 13. ISBN 9780921689607. ^ a b Harman, Oren (2011). The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness. W.W. Norton & Company. p. 20. ISBN 9780393339994. ^ Roger N. Baldwin, "The Story of Kropotkin's Life," in Kropotkin's Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings, ed. by Baldwin (Orig. 1927; Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1970), p. 13. ^ Martin A. Miller, "Introduction" to P. A. Kropotkin, Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970; p. 7. ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1899). Memoirs of a Revolutionist. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 63. peter kropotkin memoirs revolutionist. ^ Winkle, Justin, ed. (2009). "Kropotkin, Petr Alexseyevich". The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture. Taylor & Francis. p. 425. ISBN 9780415477826. ^ Todes, Daniel Philip (1989). Darwin Without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought. Oxford University Press. p. 124. ISBN 9780195058307. ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1899). Memoirs of a Revolutionist. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company. p. 270. ^ a b Miller, "Introduction," pg. 8. ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1899). Memoirs of a Revolutionist. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company. p. 198. ^ Miller, "Introduction," p. 9. ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1899). Memoirs of a Revolutionist. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company. p. 214. ^ Ward, Dana (2010). "Alchemy in Clarens: Kropotkin and Reclus, 1877–1881". In Jun, Nathan J.; Wahl, Shane (eds.). New Perspectives on Anarchism. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 211. ISBN 9780739132418. ^ a b Marshall, Peter (2010). Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. PM Press. p. 311. ISBN 9781604860641. ^ Riggenbach, Jeff (4 March 2011). "The Anarchism of Peter Kropotkin". Mises Daily. Ludwig von Mises Institute. ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1899). Memoirs of a Revolutionist. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company. pp. 235–236. ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1899). Memoirs of a Revolutionist. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company. pp. 282–287. ^ Cahm, Caroline (2002). Kropotkin: And the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872–1886. Cambridge University Press. p. 44. ISBN 9780521891578. ^ Todes, Daniel Philip (1989). Darwin Without Malthus: The Struggle for Existence in Russian Evolutionary Thought. Oxford University Press. p. 125. ISBN 9780195058307. ^ Bell, Jeffrey A. (2002). "Kropotkin, Pyotr". In Bell, Jeffrey A. (ed.). Industrialization and Imperialism, 1800–1914: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 199. ISBN 9780313314513. ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1899). Memoirs of a Revolutionist. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company. pp. 417–423. ^ Kropotkin, Peter (2010). Memoirs of a Revolutionist. reproduction of 1899 edition. Dover Publications. p. 440. ISBN 978-0-486-47316-1. ^ a b Bantman, Constance (2006). "Internationalism without an International? Cross-Channel Anarchist Networks, 1880–1914" (PDF). Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire. 84 (84–4): 965. doi:10.3406/rbph.2006.5056. ^ Young, Sarah J. (9 January 2011). "Russians in London: Pyotr Kropotkin". Retrieved 30 August 2013. ^ Shpayer, Haia (June 1981). "British Anarchism 1881–1914: Reality and Appearance" (PDF). p. 20. Retrieved 30 August 2013. ^ "Alexandra Kropotkin". Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America by Paul Avrich (2005) AK Press pps. 16–18. Retrieved 8 May 2017 ^ Bromley Council guide to blue plaques ^ Peter Marshall Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, London: Fontana, 1993, p.315 ^ Gibbs, A. (2001). A Bernard Shaw Chronology. Springer. p. 365. ISBN 9780230599581. ^ peter marshall, p 332, Demanding the impossible 1993 ^ The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism, Edited by Carl Levy and Matthew S. Adams, page 404 publication Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 ^ Burbank, Jane (1989). Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917–1922. Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780195045734. ^ "A meeting between V.I. Lenin and P. A. Kropotkin". ^ "Letter to the Workers of Western Europe", in Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets. Dover Publications Inc. 1970. p. 254. ISBN 9780486225197. ^ Goldman, Emma (1931). Living My Life. Dover Publications. pp. 867–868. ISBN 978-0-486-22543-2. ^ "Papers of William Wess". cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org. ^ "The Biography of Prince Pyotr Kropotkin". 9 July 2016. ^ Muscovites Step Up Effort To Rename Metro Station Honoring Tsar's Killer. ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1902). Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. McClure, Philips & Company. pp. 223. ^ Bekken, John (2009). Radical Economics and Labour. Chapter 2: Peter Kropotkin's anarchist economics for a new society. London & New York: Routledge. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-415-77723-0. ^ a b Sale, Kirkpatrick (1 July 2010) Are Anarchists Revolting? Archived 12 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, The American Conservative ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1902). quotation from Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. ^ Gallaher, Carolyn; Dahlman, Carl T.; Gilmartin, Mary; Mountz, Alison; Shirlow, Peter (2009). Key Concepts in Political Geography. London: SAGE. p. 392. ISBN 978-1-4129-4672-8. Retrieved 31 July 2014. ^ Vucinich, Alexander (1988). Darwin in Russian Thought. University of California Press. p. 349. ISBN 9780520062832. ^ Morris, David. Anarchism Is Not What You Think It Is – And There's a Whole Lot We Can Learn from It, AlterNet, 13 February 2012. ^ Kropotkin, Peter (1892). The Conquest of Bread. Putnam. pp. 201. ^ Kropotkin wrote: "After the Collectivist Revolution instead of saying 'twopence' worth of soap, we shall say 'five minutes' worth of soap." (quoted in Brauer, Fae (2009). "Wild Beasts and Tame Primates: 'Le Douanier' Rosseau's Dream of Darwin's Evolution". In Larsen, Barbara Jean (ed.). The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture. UPNE. p. 211. ISBN 9781584657750.) ^ Avrich, Paul (2005). The Russian Anarchists. AK Press. pp. 28–29. ISBN 9781904859482. ^ Adams, Matthew S. (4 June 2015). Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism: Between Reason and Romanticism. Springer. ISBN 9781137392626. Further reading[edit] Books on Kropotkin[edit] Mac Laughlin, Jim (2016). Kropotkin and the Anarchist Intellectual Tradition. Pluto Press (UK). ISBN 9780745335131. Alan, Barnard (March 2004). "Mutual Aid and the Foraging Mode of Thought: Re-reading Kropotkin on the Khoisan". Social Evolution & History. 3 (1): 3–21. Joll, James (1980). The Anarchists. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03641-3. LCCN 80-010503. Woodcock, George & Avakumovic, Ivan (1950). The Anarchist Prince: A Biographical Study of Peter Kropotkin. Miller, Martin A. (1976). Kropotkin. University of Chicago Press. Morris, Brian (2004). Kropotkin: the Politics of Community. Humanity Press. The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Police by Alex Butterworth (Pantheon Books, 2010) Engelbert, Arthur (2012). Help! Gegenseitig behindern oder helfen. Eine politische Skizze zur Wahrnehmung heute. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. ISBN 978-3-8260-5017-6. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2013. Cahm, Caroline (1989). Kropotkin and the rise of revolutionary anarchism 1872–1886. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36445-0. Walter, Nicolas (2004). "Kropotkin, Peter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/42326. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Davis, Mike (2018) Chapter 3: The Coming Desert: Kropotkin, Mars and the Pulse of Asia in Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory. Verso Books. Journal articles[edit] Gould, S.J. (June 1997). "Kropotkin was no crackpot". Natural History. 106: 12–21. Basic Kropotkin: Kropotkin and the History of Anarchism by Brian Morris, Anarchist Communist Editions pamphlet no.17 (The Anarchist Federation, October 2008). Efremenko D., Evseeva Y. Studies of Social Solidarity in Russia: Tradition and Modern Trends. // American Sociologist, v. 43, 2012, no. 4, pp. 349–365. – NY: Springer Science+Business Media. Prince P. A. Kropotkin: [Obituary] // Nature. 1921. Vol. 106. P. 735-736. External links[edit] This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. 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