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Kropotkin

[ kroh-pot-kin, kruh-; Russian kruh-pawt-kyin ]

noun

  1. Prince Pëter A·le·kse·e·vich [prins, , pyawtr, uh-lyi-, ksyey, -yi-vyich], 1842–1921, Russian geographer, author, and anarchist.


Kropotkin

/ kraˈpɔtkin /

noun

  1. KropotkinPeter18421921MRussianPOLITICS: anarchist Prince Peter, Russian name Pyotr Alexeyevich. 1842–1921, Russian anarchist: his books include Mutual Aid (1902) and Modern Science and Anarchism (1903)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

The practice of mutual aid is an old one, first conceptualized as an organizing theory by Russian anarchist Pëtr Kropotkin in 1902.

From Salon

Kropotkin's radical 1892 text, The Conquest of Bread, continues to influence anarchists around the world to this day.

From BBC

“Does that mean if the F.S.B. shows up and finds a copy of Kropotkin”—a Russian philosopher and proponent of anarcho-communism, who died in 1921—“it’s enough to send me off to prison?”

The family home in Adel was an alternative salon of radical figures, including the celebrated Russian anarchist Prince Kropotkin.

In the time of Darwin and Kropotkin the research needed to verify these claims was in its infancy, but recent work has supported this vision of the natural world.

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