The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
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Product Description
The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin’s most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it. Marshall Shatz’s introduction to this edition traces Kropotkin’s evolution as an anarchist, from his origins in the Russian aristocracy to his disillusionment with the Russian Revolution. The volume also includes a number of his shorter writings, including a hitherto untranslated chapter from his classic Memoirs of a Revolutionist.
Book Description
Peter Kropotkin’s most detailed description of the ideal society embodies anarchist communism and the social revolution that was to achieve it. This edition’s introduction traces his evolution as an anarchist, from his origins in Russian aristocracy to his disillusionment with the Russian Revolution.
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The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin was the world’s foremost spokesman of anarchism at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The Conquest of Bread is his most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it.
₱1,731.00