Hardcover, 259 pages
Russian language
Published Dec. 31, 1922 by Издательской Комиссии при Рабочем Союзе «Самообразование».
Hardcover, 259 pages
Russian language
Published Dec. 31, 1922 by Издательской Комиссии при Рабочем Союзе «Самообразование».
First American edition of what Kropotkin's editor Lebedev called “the swan song of the great humanitarian scientist and revolutionist-anarchist, [constituting] as it were, the crowning work and the résumé of all the scientific, philosophical, and sociological views of Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin" (from Lebedev's foreword, as translated by Louis Friedland for the 1924 English-language edition). That this major work of anarchist philosophy had its first American incarnation in a Russian-language edition testifies to the still-powerful influence of the Russian exile intellectual community in the years immediately following the Revolution. A very nicely preserved copy of a major (and uncommon) Kropotkin work.
(Source: Lorne Bair Rare Books)