The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin\'s most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it.
The volume also includes a number of his shorter writings, including a hitherto untranslated chapter from his classic Memoirs of a Revolutionist..
Marshall Shatz\'s introduction to this edition traces Kropotkin\'s evolution as an anarchist, from his origins in the Russian aristocracy to his disillusionment with the Russian Revolution.
The Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkin\'s most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it