Peter Kropotkin

Also known as Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Pyotr Kropotkin, Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin, P. Kropotkin, P. A. Kropotkin, Prince Peter Krapotkin

Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)

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Peter Kropotkin was a Russian revolutionary and philosopher who lived from 1842 to 1921 and developed influential ideas about socialist and anarchist thought. His work matters because his theories significantly shaped how people understood radical political movements and alternative visions for organizing society.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 9 December 1842
Died: 8 February 1921
Works: 374

Top works

Mutual Aid
法律と强權
Lo spirito di ribellione
The great French Revolution, 1789-1793
倫理學的起原和發展

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Russia
Active from: 1842
Active to: 1921

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 133
Total plays: 1,724

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,878x
A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,188x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,716x
<i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,302x

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Quotes

“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. The peoples of the world are becoming profoundly dissatisfied and are not appeased by the promise of the social-democrats to patch up the State into a new engine of oppression.”
“You know how I always believe in the future … Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.”
“Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. He is a madman, an immolator, wishful of burning, and slaughter, and sacrificing.”
“I of course take a negative attitude about a great deal that is happening, and I have said so directly and frankly to many of those who stand at the head of government. They behave well towards me, and many things I asked were carried out. They even proposed that I should take part in their work, but I refused. As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.”
“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”
“The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.”

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Commons category: Peter Kropotkin
date of death: 1921-02-08
Commons gallery: Peter Kropotkin
Commons Creator page: Peter Kropotkin
date of birth: 1842-12-09
name in native language: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Peter Kropotkin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December [O.S. 27 November] 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.

Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended the Page Corps 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.