The theoretical writings are supplemented by more concrete articles dealing specifically with conditions in nineteenth-century Russia-a society confronted by an authentic revolutionary opposition. The selection is designed to reveal such fundamental conceptions as Kropotkin's interpretation of the role of anarchism in modern history, his criticism of capitalism, his theory of revolution, and his views of the ideals to be realized in the postrevolutionary society of the future. This anthology contains selected essays and correspondence of Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin, who was, after Bakunin's death in 1876, unquestionably the most widely read and respected theorist of anarchism. It was an attitude of profound alienation cutting across all social class lines from urban aristocrat to rural peasant." What these widely disparate individuals shared was a common attitude toward society and the state. The editor of this anthology writes that anarchism in the late nineteenth century "combined within itself the extremes of intellectuals such as Kropotkin and Tolstoy surrounded by an aura of unimpeachable moral conduct, together with assassins and bandit-outlaws such as Ravachol and Sazonov.
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