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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
Born
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
(1842-12-09)9 December 1842
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died
8 February 1921(1921-02-08) (aged 78)
Dmitrov, Russian SFSR
Resting place
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Education
Corps of Pages (1857–1862)
Saint Petersburg Imperial University (1867; no degree)[1]
Notable work
The Conquest of Bread (1892)
Fields, Factories, and Workshops (1899)
Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902)
Spouse
Sofia Ananyeva-Rabinovich
Children
Alexandra
Family
Kropotkin
Era
19th-century philosophy
20th-century philosophy
Region
Russian philosophy
Western philosophy
School
Anarchism
Communism
Socialism
Main interests
Political philosophy
Political history
Economics
Ethics
Darwinian theory
Geography
Notable ideas
Political, ethical and economic theory of anarcho-communism
Mutual aid
Criticism of wage labor
Five-hour workday
Communal kitchens
Voluntary communes
Military career
Allegiance
Russian Empire
Unit
Corps of Pages
Commands held
Aide-de-camp to the Governor of Transbaikal
Attaché for Cossack affairs to the Governor-General of East Siberia
Signature
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 and Fields, Factories, and Workshops, with Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution 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.
^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.
^"Kropotkin" Archived 25 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
^Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p. 414. ISBN 978-0-415-25225-6.
^Peter Kropotkin entry on 'anarchism' from the Encyclopædia Britannica (eleventh ed.), Internet Archive. Public Domain text.
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