Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Assassination of Alexander II, Tsar of Russia
Memoir
By: Peter Alexeievich Kropotkin
Date: 1899
Source: Excerpt from Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), chapter 32.
About the Author: Peter Kropotkin, the "Anarchist Prince," was born in Moscow on December 12, 1842, the son of a Russian prince. After several years in the military, he left in 1867 to pursue his interests in science (especially geography), and to study the condition of the Russian peasantry. In 1872, Kropotkin traveled to Switzerland, where he joined the International Workingmen's Association. During the 1870s and 1880s, he came to reject the Darwinian concept of "survival of the fittest" in favor of anarchist-communist principles...
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