KROPOTKIN
\kɹˈɒpətkˌɪn], \kɹˈɒpətkˌɪn], \k_ɹ_ˈɒ_p_ə_t_k_ˌɪ_n]\
Definitions of KROPOTKIN
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- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1910 - Warner's dictionary of authors ancient and modern
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A Russian geographer, author and socialist; born in Moscow, Dec. 9, 1842. He received the gold medal of the Russian Geographical Society for his journey across Manchuria in 1864, and explored the glacial deposits in Finland and Sweden, 1871. He joined the International Working Men's Association in 1872 and was arrested and confined in fortress St. Peter and St. Paul in 1874. Escaped and went to England, and later founded at Geneva the anarchist paper Le Revolte. Expelled from Switzerland in 1881, condemned at Lyons to five years imprisonment in 1884, liberated in 1886. Among his many published works are: "Researches on the Glacial Period" (1876); "In Russian and French Prisons" (1886); "L'Anarchie, sa Philosophie, son Ideal" (1896); "Memoirs of a Revolutionist" (1900); "Modern Science and Anarchism" (1902); "The Dessication of Asia".
By Charles Dudley Warner