Peter Kropotkin

Prince Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin () (9 December 1842 - 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, philosopher, revolutionary, scientist, geographer, and one of the first advocates of anarcho-communism.
Early life
Kropotkin was born on December 9, 1842 in Moscow, Russia.  His father, Aleksey Petrovich Kropotkin was a prince of the Rurik Dynasty. His father owned large amounts of land and over 1000 serfs.  His mother, Yekaterina Nikolaevna Sulima was the daughter of a Cossack general.  In 1846, Kropotkin's mother died of tuberculosis. Two years after, Kropotkin's father married a woman named Yelizaveta Mar'kovna Korandino.
 Books 
  Project Gutenberg e-text, Project LibriVox audiobook
 The Conquest of Bread Project Gutenberg e-text, Project LibriVox audiobook
 Fields, Factories and Workshops
 P.Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons, London: Ward and Downey; 1887.
 Memoirs of a Revolutionist, London : Smith, Elder; 1899. Kropotkin's own memoirs, which were also published in the United States in the same year and have appeared in a number of modern editions.
 The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, London, William Heinemann, 1909, translated from the French by N.F. Dryhurst. e-text (in French)
 Russian Literature: Ideals and Realities (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1915). Available online at the Anarchy Archives,Russian Literature: Ideals and Realities entry at the Anarchy Archives
 Ethics (unfinished). Included as first part of  Origen y evolución de la moral (Spanish e-text) 
 In Russian and French Prisons. Online book. A criticism of the existence of prisons.

 Articles 
 "Research on the Ice age", Notices of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, 1876.
 "The desiccation of Eur-Asia", Geographical Journal, 23 (1904), 722-741.
 Mr. Mackinder; Mr. Ravenstein; Dr. Herbertson; Prince Kropotkin; Mr. Andrews; Cobden Sanderson; Elisée Reclus, "On Spherical Maps and Reliefs: Discussion",  The Geographical Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3. (Sep., 1903), pp. 294–299, JSTOR
 "Baron Toll", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 23, No. 6. (Jun., 1904), pp. 770–772, JSTOR
 "The population of Russia", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2. (Aug., 1897), pp. 196–202, JSTOR
 "The old beds of the Amu-Daria", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3. (Sep., 1898), pp. 306–310, JSTOR

 Pamphlets 
 Listen, Anarchist!
 An Appeal To The Young 
 War.
 Law and Authority.
 The Place of Anarchy in Socialist Evolution.
 Revolutionary Government.
 Are Prisons Necessary? Chapter X from "In Russian and French Prisons" (1887)
 Anarchism : Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
 The State : Its Historic Role (1897)
 On Economics Selected Passages from his Writings (1898-1913)

 References 

Other websites
"Map of the Southern Half of Eastern Siberia and Parts of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Sakhalin: For a General Sketch of the Orography of Eastern Siberia" is a map that was made by Peter Kropotkin

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