Rasprostranenie Radikal'no-sotsialisticheskikh idei. Perevod s Frantsuzkogo. [The spread of radical socialist ideas. Translated from the French] by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich (1842-1921) - 1913

[London or Paris?]: Izdanie federatsii Anarkhistov-Kommunistov, 1913. Octavo (18.5 × 12 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 8 pp. Unopened and uncut; wrappers detached and lightly chipped at corners. Text very good. A rare pamphlet on radical socialism written by Petr Kropotkin, a Russian revolutionary, activist, and one of the central philosophers of international anarcho-communism. Born into a noble family, Kropotkin (1842-1921) became involved in Socialist activities in 1872. Following arrest and persecution he was forced to flee Russia in 1876, living in France, where he was arrested for anarchist activity, Switzerland, from which he was expelled for his political writing, and England, where he founded Freedom Press, an anarchist newspaper turned publishing house still in operation today. In 1917 he triumphantly returned to Russia after the February Revolution. Although originally supportive of the October Revolution, Kropotkin came to be disillusioned with Lenin's dictatorial tendencies. This pamphlet, originally written in French and published on the eve of WWI, discusses the tactics and failures of the socialist-democrats in Russia and in Germany in reaching workers in urban areas. The pamphlet was published by the Federation of Anarcho-Communists, a clandestine organization that operated from Paris. Not in the Russian State or National Libraries.