After the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the subsequent Occupy movement, Kropotkin's work took on increased prominence. David Graeber, one of the intellectual leaders of the Occupy movement, cited Kropotkin directly as an inspiration for the world the Occupy protesters were attempting to create. In 2015, David Priestland, writing for "The Guardian", called for a renewed look at Kropotkin and "The Conquest of Bread" in the West, given the recent collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the global Financial crisis of 2007–2008.