Kropotkin: 'The Conquest of Bread' and Other Writings

by Pyotr Kropotkin

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521459907
• ISBN13: 9780521459907
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"