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Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was born in 1842 and breathed his last in 1921. Kropotkin was a Russian noble. He was educated for army and at the age of twenty he became a military officer in Siberia.
Kropotkin’s great interest in science developed from his military training which he received to get a job. This moulded his life in future. He had a scientific mind and devoted his time and energy to the study of books on science.
As a military officer in Siberia Kropotkin got ample opportunity for geographical survey and expedition. Thus his shift from military service to geographical survey and expeditions enriched the subject profoundly. He contributed many articles to different journals.
Peter Kropotkin was a man of different mentality and attitude. His stay in military service could not satisfy his academic and intellectual requirements and desires and after serving several years he relinquished the job, and entered the University of St. Petersburg in 1867. His vast knowledge in geography brought for him the post of secretary of Geographical Society.
Even this vital administrative post could not detain him for long time. He moved to radical political movements. In 1872, Peter Kropotkin joined the International Workingmen’s Association. Later on he was deeply involved in subversive and anarchical activities. This led him to imprisonment in 1874.
He escaped from prison in 1876 and went to England. The England of the second half of eighteenth century was the centre of revolutionary activities, although she never experienced any revolution.
He also travelled to Switzerland and Paris. While in Paris he was again arrested by the French government in 1883. Released from prison in 1886 he went to England and settled there. While in exile, Kropotkin gave lectures and published widely on anarchism and geography. He returned to Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917 but was disappointed by the Bolshevik state. The rest of his life was spent without political activity.
Peter Kropotkin was an evolutionist anarchist. But his evolutionism was more scientific than that of his predecessors. He wrote several books on anarchism such as ‘The Place of Anarchy in Socialist Evolution (1886), The Conquest of Bread (1888), Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)’, ‘The State – Its Part in History (1898)’ and ‘Modern Science and Anarchism (1903)’. His deep interest in science, particularly biology and anthropology, opened before him new and enchanting vistas of knowledge and all these inspired him to study biological science with added interest.
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The Funeral of Peter Kropotkin :anarchists:
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution :AC-AnarKitty:
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Syndicalism and Anarchism :ancom:
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If you can’t tell, I really don’t know much history and could use little bits of info at a time to build more distinct pictures of these two men and countries. If I am to be honest, I’m scared of reading the terrible struggles forced upon them and their people. It makes me very sad, but I will try to at least check a few small things out. I might be too depressed to read almost anything, but I figure there’s got to be something for me out there. It’d be nice if I got the fun/happy facts as well as the sad ones.
Stalin died a couple months before the Cuban revolution started. Cuba is a tropical island in the western hemisphere and Russia is a fuck off big country taking up good chunk of the northeastern hemisphere and kinda spilling into other quadrants a bit. Stalin’s More Cold and More Old and Castro is More Young in More Sun?
As stated below season 2 of Blowback had ya covered for the Cuban Revolution as well as Castro as an El Presidente to a lesser extent. I dunno where one would find an easy to digest and not mostly incorrect account of Stalin. Dude had a LOT of haters who got publishing deals
Proles of the round table are doing a 13+(?) episode series on Stalin, from what i hear theyre very good, though not sure if 13 episodes is easy to digest
Never listened so I dunno. My knowledge comes from a variety of bits and pieces over the years and I honestly dont know that much about the guy. Ive read his writings and the broad strokes and sit in the generally in favor group regsrding the guy but in the end I know more about what is commonly believed but isnt true than the full truth.
So you’re saying no-one ever saw Stalin and Fidel in the same revolutionary moment? I think I’m picking up what you’re putting down…
While I’m trying to draw a coherent picture of each, maybe footage of them and their countries could help. I think there’s vastly different kinds of weather. I know Russia can be snowy and Cuba is very hot. Appearance of common plants, animals, architecture, and machines could look different in each country too as we look at them during each leader’s time. Those all could relate back to the needs of people which needed to be met.
Wanna try listening to Blowback season 2 or watching Soy Cuba (Fidel doesn’t appear in this movie, but it should give you a pretty visceral sense of what Cuba is like and it’s one of the best films of all time)? Blowback S2 is not very heavy compared to most of their other seasons. It’s largely focused on the very successful revolutionary movement, with a fair bit of context about what life was like before the revolution which is a bit sad. Soy Cuba is mostly sad, but picks up the tone at parts and it’s an optimistic movie at its core.
Joey Steel isn’t his birth name. Castro’s is.
Not to deadname him, but does calling Stalin “Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili” help identify the difference between a Eurasian and a Cuban?