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Peter Kropotkin begins his autobiographical Memoirs in his childhood, in a landholding family in Russia. During his adolescence, he notes the difference between the life of the servant class and that of the aristocracy. He relates the political efforts to end serfdom, and the push by reformers for more radical change, which runs against a reactionary response from the Russian rulers.
Graduating from military school, Kropotkin chooses an assignment in Siberia, and goes on geological expeditions to explore the eastern regions of the Russian Empire. Along the way he develops relationships with common peasants and workers, and wishes for a better life for them. After coming back to St. Petersburg and attending university, he starts spending time with like-minded intellectuals and activists, before he is arrested and put into prison. He eventually escapes Russia and spends the next part of his life in western Europe, running newspapers, organizing meetings, and pushing forward his ideas on social reform.
Kropotkin was an anarchist, and did not believe change could be achieved through political methods. The masses would have to rise up and take what they felt was rightfully theirs. And yet Kropotkin was more intellectual than activist. He believed in improving the life of the poor through education, and decentralized, voluntary organizations. The Memoirs were published in 1899, while he was still quite active, with the momentous events of the early twentieth century still to come.
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Anarchism, Anarchism and anarchists, Anarchists, Biography, History, Politics and government, Revolutionists, Revolutionaries, Kropotkin, petr alekseevich, 1842-1921, Anarchists, biography, Soviet union, biography, Princes, Social conditions, Explorers, 1855-1881, 1881-1894, 1894-1917, Soviet union, politics and government, Russia (federation), biography, Anarchistes, Biographies, Politique et gouvernement, Russia -- Social life and customs, Physical geography -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia, Autobiography -- Russian authors, Revolutions and socialism, Autobiography, NonfictionPlaces
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My Life : Memoirs of a Revolutionist: The Autobiography of Peter Kropotkin
2018, Independently Published
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist
2014, Dover Publications, Incorporated
in English
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist
2014, Dover Publications, Incorporated
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Memoirs of a revolutionist: the autobiography of Peter Kropotkin
2013, Red and Black Publishers
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Memoirs Of A Revolutionist
July 25, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Memoirs Of A Revolutionist
June 8, 2006, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist
April 2002, Fredonia Books (NL)
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist (Collected Works of Peter Kropotkin)
January 1996, Black Rose Books
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in English
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0921689187 9780921689188
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist
June 1990, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist
March 1989, Dover Pubns
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in English
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Memoirs of a revolutionist
1989, Black Rose Books
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Memoiren eines Revolutionärs
1973, Insel Verlag
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Memorie di un rivoluzionario
1923, Casa Editrice Sociale
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Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Publish date unknown, Random House UK Ltd (A Division of Random House Group)
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Published in Atlantic monthly Sep. 1898-Sep. 1899 under title The autobiography of a revolutionist. Graphic details of Russian conditions and of an eventful life.
— A.L.A. Catalog 1904
“Kropotkin’s story is a singularly rich, diversified, and romantic one, and it is attractively told. Nothing more interesting in its way has ever been written than the chapters relating his prison life and escape. The book abounds in instructive pictures of Russian life and character, done with unconscious art.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries : Biography Section (1927)
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