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- Kropotkin (Russian: Кропо́ткин) is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kuban River.
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Kropotkin (Russian: Кропо́ткин) is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kuban River.
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Kropotkin, city, Krasnodar kray (territory), western Russia, on the Kuban River. Founded in the 19th century as Romanovsky Khutor, it was renamed in 1921 for the geographer and revolutionary anarchist P.A. Kropotkin. It became a town in 1921 and until 1962 was the centre of the Kavkazsky rayon.
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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin [a] (9 December 1842 [b] – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism. Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended Page Corps and later served as an officer in Siberia , where he participated in several geological expeditions.
Longing for more possibility of change and direct action, Kropotkin left Russia and headed to Western Europe, travelling through Prussia and Germany to Switzerland. It is in Zurich where Kropotkin first makes acquaintance with, and joins, the International Workingmens Association.
Peter Kropotkin was above all else a revolutionary. While all-too-often remembered as the author of Mutual Aid, the gentile prince of co-operation, this picture of an anarcho-Santa is false. Kropotkin was no reformist, no naïve believer is cross-class cooperation.
Jan 11, 2014 · As the father of Russian anarchism, Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) understood society as a voluntary cooperation of free people. The word “anarchy” immediately calls to mind a black flag ...
Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin (born December 21 [December 9, Old Style], 1842, Moscow, Russia—died February 8, 1921, Dmitrov, near Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary and geographer, the foremost theorist of the anarchist movement.
