New Anarchist Library: No. 6 in a Series
PYOTR ALEXEYEVICH KROPOTKIN (1842-1921) was a Russian revolutionary and theorist of the anarchist movement. Although he achieved renown in a number of different fields, ranging from geography and zoology to sociology and history, he shunned his aristocratic heritage and material success and dedicated his life to the cause of social justice. He was the principal founder of both the English and Russian anarchist movements and exerted a strong influence on the movements in France, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Kropotkin's aim, as he often remarked, was to provide anarchism with a scientific basis. He advocated a decentralised communist society free from the coercive bureaucratic state and based on voluntary associations of worker-run enterprises and self-governing communities in which people could develop their creative faculties without interference from rulers, clerics, or soldiers. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being THE CONQUEST OF BREAD (1892), FIELDS, FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS (1899), MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST (1899). In MUTUAL AID (1902), widely regarded as his masterpiece, he argued that cooperation rather than conflict is the chief factor in the evolution of species, tracing the evolution of voluntary cooperation from the primitive tribe, peasant village and medieval commune to a variety of modern associations.
With the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, however, his earlier enthusiasm turned to bitter disappointment. "This buries the revolution," he remarked to a friend. The Bolsheviks, he said, have shown how the revolution was not to be made — that is, by authoritarian rather than libertarian methods. Kropotkin's last years were devoted chiefly to writing a history of ethics and fostering an anarchist cooperative in the village of Dmitrov, north of Moscow. His funeral, attended by tens of thousands of admirers, was the last occasion in the Soviet era when the black flag of anarchism was paraded through the Russian capital.
Kropotkin's life exemplified the high ethical standard and the combination of thought and action that he preached throughout his writings. He displayed none of the egotism, duplicity, or lust for power that marred the image of so many other revolutionaries. Because of this he was admired not only by his own comrades but by many for whom the label of anarchist meant little more than the dagger and the bomb. The French writer Romain Rolland said that Kropotkin lived what Leo Tolstoy only advocated, and Oscar Wilde called him one of the two really happy men he had known.
The following books are in PDF and/or ePUB format as indicated:
* Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings (Dover, 2002) — ePUB + PDF
* Anarchism, Anarchist Communism, and The State (PM, 2019). I. McKay, ed. — ePUB
* "Anarchism" (entry in Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition) — PDF
* Anarchist Communism (Freedom Press, 1920) — PDF
* Anarchist Morality (Zabalaza, 2017) — PDF
* Commune of Paris, The (Freedom Press, 1902) — PDF
* Conquest of Bread, The (Dover, 2011) — ePUB
* Conquest of Bread, The (Penguin Classics, 2015). D. Priestland, ed. — ePUB
* Conquest of Bread, The (AK, 2006). C. Weigl, ed. — ePUB
* Conquest of Bread & Other Writings (Cambridge, 1995). M. Shatz, ed. — PDF^
* Direct Struggle Against Capital (AK, 2014). I. McKay, ed. — ePUB + PDF
* Essential Kropotkin, The (Macmillan, 1976). E. Capouya, ed. — PDF
* Fields, Factories and Workshops (Putnams, 1913) — PDF
* Fields, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow (Harper & Row, 1974). C. Ward, ed. — PDF
* Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 (Heinemann, 1909) — PDF
* Ideals and Realities in Russian Literature (Knopf, 1919) — PDF
* In Russian and French Prisons (Ward & Downey, 1887) — PDF
* Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets (Dover, 1970). R. Baldwin, ed. — PDF
* Law and Authority (Reeves, 1900) — PDF
* Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Barnes & Noble, 2011) — ePUB
* Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Nolitho, 2013) — ePUB
* Modern Science and Anarchy (AK, 2018). I. McKay, ed. — ePUB
* Modern Science and Anarchism [2nd edn.] (Freedom Press, 1923) — PDF
* Mutual Aid (Dover, 2006) — ePUB
* Mutual Aid (Knopf, 1916) — PDF
* Revolutionary Studies (Commonweal, 1892) — PDF
* Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution (MIT, 1970). M. Miller, ed. — PDF
* Terror in Russia (Methuen, 1909) — PDF
These reprints from the Anarchist Library are also included (all PDF):
* Action of the Masses and the Individual (AL, 2019)
* Advice To Those About To Emigrate (AL, 2009)
* An Appeal to the Young (AL, 2020)
* Anarchism and Revolution (AL, 2019)
* Anarchism From the Encyclopaedia Britannica (AL, 2009)
* Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (AL, 2009)
* Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles (AL, 2009)
* Anarchist Morality (AL, 2009)
* Appeal to the Young (AL, 2009)
* Are Prisons Necessary (AL, 2014)
* Are We Good Enough (AL, 2015)
* Brain Work and Manual Work (AL, 2009)
* Coming War, The (AL, 2019)
* Commune of Paris, The (AL, 2009)
* Communism and Anarchy (AL, 2009)
* Conquest of Bread, The (AL, 2009)
* Constitutional Agitation In Russia (AL, 2019)
* Crisis of Socialism, The (AL, 2020)
* Declaration to the Tribunal of Lyons (AL, 2019)
* Direct Action of Environment and Evolution (AL, 2009)
* Effects of Persecution (AL, 2016)
* Ethics: Origin and Development (AL, 2009)
* Expropriation (AL, 2009)
* Fields, Factories and Workshops (AL, 2010)
* Finland: A Rising Nationality (AL, 2009)
* Great French Revolution and Its Lesson (AL, 2019)
* Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 (AL, 2009)
* Ideals and Realities In Russian Literature (AL, 2009)
* In Russian and French Prisons (AL, 2019)
* Industrial Village of the Future, The (AL, 2019)
* Law and Authority (AL, 2009)
* Manifesto of the Sixteen (AL, 2019)
* Maxim Gorky (AL, 2019)
* Memoirs of a Revolutionist (AL, 2009)
* Modern Science and Anarchism (AL, 2012)
* Modern State, The (AL, 2019)
* Mutual Aid (AL, 2009)
* On Order (AL, 2009)
* On the Teaching of Physiography (AL, 2019)
* Organised Vengeance Called "Justice" (AL, 2009)
* Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution (AL, 2009)
* Present Crisis In Russia (AL, 2019)
* Prisons: Universities of Crime (AL, 2019)
* Process Under Socialism (AL, 2019)
* Proposed Communist Settlement (AL, 2009)
* Revolutionary Government (AL, 2009)
* Revolutionary Studies (AL, 2019)
* Russian Revolution and the Soviet Government (AL, 2009)
* Russian School and the Holy Synod (AL, 2019)
* Scientific Basis of Anarchy (AL, 2019)
* Small Communal Experiments and Why They Fail (AL, 2019)
* Some of the Resources of Canada (AL, 2019)
* Spirit of Revolt, The (AL, 2009)
* Syndicalism and Anarchism (AL, 2017)
* The State: Its Historic Role (AL, 2009)
* Wage System, The (AL, 2009)
* War (AL, 2009)
* Wars and Capitalism (AL, 2009)
* What Geography Ought to Be (AL, 2012)
* Words of a Rebel (AL, 2019)
* Workers Organisation (AL, 2020)
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