Peter Kropotkin
Social activist, Author
1842 – 1921
Who was Peter Kropotkin?
Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, philologist, economist, activist, geographer, writer, and prominent anarcho-communist.
Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between workers. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, and his principal scientific offering, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. He also contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.
Famous Quotes:
- Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
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- Born
- Dec 9, 1842
Moscow - Also known as
- Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
- Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin
- Petr Alekseevich kniaz Kropotkin
- Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
- P. Kropotkin
- Parents
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Died
- Feb 8, 1921
Dmitrov
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on July 23, 2013
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