Peter Kropotkin

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexeyevich and the family name is Kropotkin.

Peter Kropotkin
Пётр Кропоткин
Kropotkin c. 1900
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin

(1842-12-09)9 December 1842
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died8 February 1921(1921-02-08) (aged 78)
Dmitrov, Russian SFSR
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
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ChildrenAlexandra
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin[a] (9 December 1842[b] – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.

Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended Page Corps and later served as an officer in Siberia, where he participated in several geological expeditions. He was imprisoned for his activism in 1874 and managed to escape two years later. He spent the next 41 years in exile in Switzerland, France (where he was imprisoned for almost four years) and England. While in exile, he gave lectures and published widely on anarchism and geography.[3] Kropotkin returned to Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917, but he was disappointed by the Bolshevik state.

Kropotkin was a proponent of a decentralized communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations of self-governing communities and worker-run enterprises. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread (1892) and Fields, Factories, and Workshops (1899), with Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) being his principal scientific offering. He contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition[4] and left an unfinished work on anarchist ethical philosophy.

  1. ^ Slatter, John. "Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeyevich." Archived 16 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine Encyclopedia of Russian History. 2004. Retrieved 1 March 2016 from Encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ "Kropotkin" Archived 25 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
  3. ^ Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 414. ISBN 978-0-415-25225-6.
  4. ^ Peter Kropotkin entry on 'anarchism' from the Encyclopædia Britannica (eleventh ed.), Internet Archive. Public Domain text.


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