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Peter Kropotkin

Short biography: Peter Kropotkin in Great Lives

About Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) was a Russian prince, geographer and naturalist who became the leading theorist of anarchist communism.

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The Conquest of Bread

1892 (English 1906) · 19th Century · Political Theory

The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin's most famous statement of anarchist communism, first published in French as La Conquête du pain in 1892, with a preface by the geographer Élisée Reclus, and in English in 1906. This text reproduces the 1926 Vanguard Press printing of the English version, with a short biographical note on the author.