KROPOTKIN, PETER ALEKSEYEVICH

born Dec. 21 [Dec. 9, Old Style], 1842, Moscow, Russia died Feb. 8, 1921, Dmitrov, near Moscow Russian revolutionary and geographer, the foremost theorist of the anarchist movement. Although he achieved renown in a number of different fields, ranging from geography and zoology to sociology and history, he shunned material success for the life of a revolutionist. Additional reading George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, The Anarchist Prince (1950, reissued as Peter Kropotkin, 1990); Martin A. Miller, Kropotkin (1976); Caroline Cahm, Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 18721886 (1989).