The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin was the world`s foremost spodesman 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.Marshall Shatz`s introduction to this edition traces Kropotkin`s evolution as an anarchist from his origins in the Russian aristocracy to his disllusionment with the Russian Revolution,and the volume also includes a hitherto untranslated chapter from his clallic Memeoirs of a Revolutionist,which contains colourful character - sketches of some of his fellow anarchists,as well as an article he wrote summarizing the history of anarchism ,and some of his views on the Revolution.

Introduction

Principal events in Kropotkin`s life

Bibliographical note

Bigraphical synopses

The Conquest of Bread

Preface

Our riches

Well-being for all

Anarchist communism

Expropriation

Food

Dwellings

Clothing

Ways and means

The need for luxury

Agreeable work

Free agreement

Objections

The collectiveist wages system

Consumption and production

The division of labour

The decentralization of industry

Agriculture

Western Europe,from Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Anarchism ,from The Encyclopaedia Britannia

Kropotkin on the Russian Revolution

Messane to the Worders of the Western World

Two letters to Lenin

What is to Be Done

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