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

Kropotkin, Peter/ Shatz, Marshall S. (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（1995/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521459907
• DDC分類 335.83

Full 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.

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.