Peter Kropotkin: The Life of an Anarchist

Prince Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin fully mastered the art of being himself, living by his own convictions and, if necessary, swimming against the tide. Despite the wholeness of his nature, Kropotkin's personality combined all that is most incompatible. A special assignments official, a promising administrator, a talented military intelligence officer, he rejected a state career, initially for the sake of science. A philosopher, memoirist and journalist, geographer, geologist, biologist-naturalist, economist, ethnographer, sociologist, historian, literary critic - this is all he, Kropotkin, almost a second Lomonosov. However, his true fate became revolutionary agitation, arrests and prisons, the famous escape, and decades of life in exile. He became an enemy not only of Russian autocracy but also of the "democratic" rulers of Europe, one of the true leaders of world anarchism and a leading theorist of anarchist communism, a thinker who can be considered a precursor of the theory of post-industrial society... The book by contemporary Russian historians Dmitry Rublev and Vadim Damye tells of a man who in the late 19th - early 20th century was a moral authority not only for many Russians but also for people from all the continents of the globe.