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Words of a RebelOrigins and DevelopmentPeter KropotkinEdited by George Woodcock |
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Words of a RebelOrigins and DevelopmentPeter KropotkinEdited by George Woodcock |
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Admired by Leo Tolstoy from
the last century to Lewis Mumford in our own, Peter
Alexeivich Kropotkin (1842-1921) was born into the
highest rank of the Russian aristocracy. He was
dramatically converted from prince to anarchist. A
remarkable writer in the Russian tradition, his works
stand as non-fictional counterparts to the novels of
Turgenev. Having renounced his title, Kropotkin pursued
his work as a scientist and won international acclaim as
a geographer as well as a radical. For 42 years he lived in exile (mainly in England), making a scanty living, before he was allowed to return to Russia in 1917 at the age of 75. During this time he wrote a great number of books and pamphlets in which he advocated complete social reorganization based on mutual aid, sympathy, individual liberty through free cooperation, and solidarity. First published in French in 1885, this collection contains articles written between 1879 and 1882. A different work from the more familiar books of the older Kropotkin, it is a product of an anarchist agitator and it derives its interest as much from what it reveals about an important transitional phase in the development of anarchism as it does for what it shows us of Kropotkin himself. The first complete English version. |
229 pages, index
Paperback ISBN: 1-895431-04-2 $19.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-895431-05-0 $48.99
L.C. No. 91-72985
ISSN: 1188-5807
