Kropotkin: 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings

by Peter Kropotkin, Marshall S. Shatz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521453981
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/10/1995
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.83(d)

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.