Peter Kropotkin

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was born in Moscow in 1842 into an old princely family. As a boy he served as a page to Tsar Alexander II. Choosing service in Siberia instead of the court, he joined a Cossack regiment and made geographical expeditions in Siberia and Manchuria, later studying glaciers in Finland and Sweden. These experiences, and the cooperation he observed among animals and peasant communities, shaped his ideas. He renounced his title, joined the revolutionary movement, and was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress in 1874; in 1876 he made a daring escape. In western Europe he became a leading anarchist writer, was imprisoned in France from 1883 to 1886, and then lived for some thirty years in England. His books include The Conquest of Bread (1892), Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899), Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899) and Mutual Aid (1902), which argued that cooperation is a major factor in evolution. He returned to Russia in 1917, opposed the Bolshevik dictatorship, and died at Dmitrov in 1921.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; in his writing on ethics he praised the Christian teaching against revenge while arguing for anarchism. Source: Wikipedia