Peter Kropotkin

Prince Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткинcode: ru is deprecated ) (9 December 1842 - 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, philosopher, revolutionary, scientist, geographer, and one of the first advocates of anarcho-communism.

Peter Kropotkin
File:Atelier Nadar - Pierre Kropotkine.jpg Kropotkin, by Nadar
Born	(1842-12-09)December 9, 1842 Moscow, Russia
Died	February 8, 1921(1921-02-08) (aged 78) Dmitrov, Russia
Occupation	Anarchist Revolutionary, Geographer, Zoologist, and Political Essayist.

Early life

Kropotkin was born on December 9, 1842 in Moscow, Russia. His father, Aleksey Petrovich Kropotkin was a prince of the Rurik Dynasty. His father owned large amounts of land and over 1000 serfs. His mother, Yekaterina Nikolaevna Sulima was the daughter of a Cossack general. In 1846, Kropotkin's mother died of tuberculosis. Two years after, Kropotkin's father married a woman named Yelizaveta Mar'kovna Korandino.

Books

• Project Gutenberg e-text, Project LibriVox audiobook
• The Conquest of Bread Project Gutenberg e-text, Project LibriVox audiobook
• Fields, Factories and Workshops
• P.Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons, London: Ward and Downey; 1887.
• Memoirs of a Revolutionist, London : Smith, Elder; 1899. Kropotkin's own memoirs, which were also published in the United States in the same year and have appeared in a number of modern editions.
• The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, London, William Heinemann, 1909, translated from the French by N.F. Dryhurst. e-text (in French)
• Russian Literature: Ideals and Realities (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1915). Available online at the Anarchy Archives,
• Ethics (unfinished). Included as first part of Origen y evolución de la moral (Spanish e-text) Archived 2009-06-30 at the Portuguese Web Archive
• In Russian and French Prisons. Online book. A criticism of the existence of prisons.

Articles

• "Research on the Ice age", Notices of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, 1876.
• "The desiccation of Eur-Asia", Geographical Journal, 23 (1904), 722-741.
• Mr. Mackinder; Mr. Ravenstein; Dr. Herbertson; Prince Kropotkin; Mr. Andrews; Cobden Sanderson; Elisée Reclus, "On Spherical Maps and Reliefs: Discussion", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3. (Sep., 1903), pp. 294–299, JSTOR
• "Baron Toll", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 23, No. 6. (Jun., 1904), pp. 770–772, JSTOR
• "The population of Russia", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2. (Aug., 1897), pp. 196–202, JSTOR
• "The old beds of the Amu-Daria", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3. (Sep., 1898), pp. 306–310, JSTOR

Pamphlets

• Listen, Anarchist!
• An Appeal To The Young Archived 1998-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
• War.
• Law and Authority.
• The Place of Anarchy in Socialist Evolution.
• Revolutionary Government.
• Are Prisons Necessary? Chapter X from "In Russian and French Prisons" (1887)
• Anarchism : Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
• The State : Its Historic Role (1897)
• On Economics Selected Passages from his Writings (1898-1913)

Peter Kropotkin Media

• Кропоткин, Петр Александрович (1842-1921; примерно 1876).jpg

  Кропоткин, Петр Алексеевич (1842-1921; примерно 1876) (BG A7/826)

• Emma Goldman gives eulogy at Peter Kropotkin's funeral.jpg

  Emma Goldman delivering a eulogy at Kropotkin's funeral

• Metro MSK Line1 Kropotkinskaya.jpg

  The Kropotkinskaya metro station

Other websites

• "Map of the Southern Half of Eastern Siberia and Parts of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Sakhalin: For a General Sketch of the Orography of Eastern Siberia" is a map that was made by Peter Kropotkin