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Kropotkin: 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings

Hardback

Main Details

Title Kropotkin: 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Peter Kropotkin
Edited by Marshall S. Shatz
SeriesCambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9780521453981
ClassificationsDewey:335.83
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 10 August 1995
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.