Kropotkin: 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Hardcover

Kropotkin, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521453984 ISBN 13: 9780521453981

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Kropotkin: 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings An edition of Kropotkin's major work plus several of his shorter writings. Full description

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Book Description:

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 traces the evolution of Kropotkin's thought, and the volume also includes a number 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. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521453984
• ISBN 13: 9780521453981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Shatz Marshall S.