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14 - Peter Kropotkin and Communist Anarchism

from The Arrival of the Hostile Siblings: Marxism and Anarchism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Ruth Kinna
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) is remembered as a theoretician of anarchism and one of the leading exponents of anarcho-communism, a doctrine he helped to elaborate with his comrades Carlo Cafiero and Elisée Reclus in the late 1870s. He grew up in what he described as Moscow’s Faubourg Saint-Germain, into considerable privilege, and attended the prestigious corps of pages, an elite military academy in St Petersburg, from 1857. In 1860 he edited his first revolutionary paper, then as a constitutionalist. Two years later, looking for more outlets for his rebellious instincts, Kropotkin passed up the opportunity of a glittering career at the imperial court and joined the Cossacks stationed in the far east of Russia.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 331 - 354
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Adams, Matthew, Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism: Between Reason and Romanticism (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cahm, Caroline, Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism 1872–1886 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kinna, Ruth, Kropotkin: Reviewing the Classical Anarchist Tradition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016).Google Scholar
Miller, Martin, Kropotkin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976).Google Scholar
Morris, Brian, Kropotkin: The Politics of Community (New York: Humanity Books, 2004).Google Scholar

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