In March 1874, Kropotkin was arrested and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress for subversive political activity, as a result of his work with the Circle of Tchaikovsky. Because of his aristocratic background, he received special privileges in prison, such as permission to continue his geographical work in his cell.

Kropotkin nació en Moscú el 9 de diciembre de 1842, en el seno de una familia noble. Su padre, el príncipe Alekséi Petróvich Kropotkin, era dueño de grandes latifundios en tres provincias, y disponía de unos 1200 siervos. Por línea paterna su linaje se trazaba hasta los Rúrik; su madre, Yekaterina Nikoláievna Sulimá, era hija de un general ruso.

Pëtr Kropotkin ritratto da Nadar. Pëtr Alekseevič Kropotkin, in russo: Пётр Алексеевич Кропоткин? in inglese Peter Kropotkin (Mosca, 9 dicembre 1842 – Dmitrov, 8 febbraio 1921), è stato un filosofo, geografo, zoologo, militante e teorico dell'anarchia russo. Libertario, fautore di un'analisi sociologica e di una proposta poggiata su basi scientifiche dell ...

Anarcho-communism, also known as anarchist communism, (or, colloquially, ancom or ancomm) is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that advocates communism. It calls for the abolition of private property but retains respect for personal property and collectively-owned items, goods, and services. It supports social ownership of property and direct democracy among …

The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress. Between the first half of the 1700s and early 1920s it served as a prison for political criminals. It has been a museum since 1924. Today it has been adapted as the central and most important …

De Russische anarchistische theoreticus Peter Kropotkin legde de grondslag voor een minder gewelddadige versie van het anarchisme. Hij pleitte voor een totale collectivisatie van de samenleving waarin niet alleen de productiemiddelen gecollectiviseerd werden, maar ook de consumptie, volgens de richtlijn: "Van ieder naar zijn vermogen, aan ieder naar zijn behoeften" .

A connection between the biological and the social was of principal importance for the idea of solidarity as expressed by the anarchist ideologist and former Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921). In his most famous book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902), written partly in response to Huxleyan Social Darwinism, Kropotkin studied the use of cooperation as a …

William of Ockham, OFM (/ ˈ ɒ k əm /; also Occam, from Latin: Gulielmus Occamus; c. 1287 – 10 April 1347) was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and Catholic theologian, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey. He is considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the …

The Dispossessed (in later printings titled The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win the Hugo, Locus and Nebulas Awards for Best Novel. It achieved a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction …

The anarchists grouped around Bakunin favoured (in Peter Kropotkin's words) "direct economical struggle against capitalism, without interfering in the political parliamentary agitation". Marxist thinking at that time focused on parliamentary activity.