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Volin
Volin
Russian anarchist
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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism (1814-1876)
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist (1809-1865)
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Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta
Anarchist
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Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman
Russian-American anarchist and writer
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Sébastien Faure
Sébastien Faure
French anarchist
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Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer
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Colin Ward
Colin Ward
British anarchist writer
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Nestor Makhno
Nestor Makhno
Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888-1934)
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Johann Most
Johann Most
German-American anarchist politician, newspaper editor, and orator (1846-1906)
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Louise Michel
Louise Michel
French author and anarchist (1830-1905)
Peter Kropotkin
Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer (1842-1921)

Peter Kropotkin

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Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer (1842-1921)
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Member of, past and present
International Workingmen's Association

International Workingmen's Association

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (/kroʊˈpɒtkɪn/; Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин Russian pronunciation: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ krɐˈpotkʲɪn]; 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, economist, sociologist, historian, zoologist, political scientist, human geographer and philosopher who advocated anarcho-communism. He was also an activist, essayist, researcher and writer.

Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended a military school and later served as an officer in Siberia, where he participated in several geological expeditions. He was imprisoned for his activism in 1874 and managed to escape two years later. He spent the next 41 years in exile in Switzerland, France (where he was imprisoned for almost four years) and England. While in exile, he gave lectures and published widely on anarchism and geography. Kropotkin returned to Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917, but he was disappointed by the Bolshevik state.

Kropotkin was a proponent of a decentralised communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations of self-governing communities and worker-run enterprises. He wrote many books, pamphlets and articles, the most prominent being The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops, but also Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, his principal scientific offering. He contributed the article on anarchism to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition and left unfinished a work on anarchist ethical philosophy.


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