Pyotr Kropotkin





Pyotr Kropotkin

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born
in Moscow, Russian Federation
December 09, 1842

died
February 08, 1921

gender
male

genre

influences


About this author

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a geographer, a zoologist, and one of Russia's foremost anarchists. One of the first advocates of anarchist communism, Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government. Because of his title of prince, he was known by some as "the Anarchist Prince". Some contemporaries saw him as leading a near perfect life, including Oscar Wilde, who described him as "a man with a soul of that beautiful white Christ which seems coming out of Russia." He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, and his principal scientific offering, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. He was also a contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica...more


Average rating: 4.13 · 1,783 ratings · 120 reviews · 41 distinct works · Similar authors
Mutual Aid
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 1891 — 34 editions
The Conquest of Bread
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 496 ratings — published 1919 — 41 editions
Anarchism: A Collection of ...
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1962 — 17 editions
Fields, Factories and Works...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1899 — 13 editions
La Morale anarchiste
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1889 — 17 editions
Revolutionary Pamphlets
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions
An Appeal to the Young
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1880 — 4 editions
The Essential Kropotkin
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings3 editions
Evolution and Environment
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
More books by Pyotr Kropotkin…
“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
Pyotr Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons

“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history.”
Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid

“Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.”
Pyotr Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist

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