{"product_id":"the-great-french-revolution-1789-1793-peter-kropotkin","title":"The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 – Peter Kropotkin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Great French Revolution, 1789–1793\u003c\/em\u003e is Peter Kropotkin’s most substantial historical work. In it he presents a people’s history of the world-shaking events of the Revolution and shows the key role the working men and women of the towns and countryside played in it. Without the constant pressure of popular organisations and activity, the politicians would never have created a Republic, nor been able to survive the counterrevolutionary forces internally or externally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on such mass movements—and especially the peasant majority—rather than on the few great men beloved of bourgeois accounts, this is a groundbreaking account of the period and a seminal work of “history from below.” Later research may have corrected some factual details and opened new avenues of scholarship, but Kropotkin’s text remains an exemplar of anarchist history-writing, challenging both bourgeois republican and Marxist interpretations of the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet it is more than a history: Kropotkin uses the experience of the French Revolution to aid us in our current struggles and to learn its lessons in order to ensure the success of future revolutions. This book raises issues which have resurfaced time and again, as well as offering solutions based on the self-activity of the masses, the new, decentralised, directly democratic social organisations they forged during the Revolution, and the need to transform a political revolt into a social revolution which seeks to secure the well-being of all by transforming the economy from the start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The French Revolution erupted out of the remnants of the old world and set a dynamic precedent for new centuries of resistance. Multifaceted, contradictory, and compelling, the French Revolution cast an enormous shadow that influenced every radical faction of 19th century politics. Peter Kropotkin was perhaps the preeminent anarchist intellect of his generation, and so his book \u003cem\u003eThe Great French Revolution, 1789–1793\u003c\/em\u003e provides us with a fascinating exploration into the late 19th century anarchist vision of historical transformation. This saga of popular upheaval from below provides a fascinating mirror image of how Kropotkin and many of his comrades envisioned the coming revolution.”\u003cbr\u003e —Mark Bray, author of Antifa\u003cem\u003e: The Anti-Fascist Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eAnarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“In this classic text, Kropotkin demonstrates how even struggles that falter can lay the groundwork for subsequent upheavals. The French Revolution may have succumbed to reaction, but it also gave birth to ideas that would define revolutions to come. A must-read for anyone struggling to put insurgency on the agenda once again.”\u003cbr\u003e —AK Thompson, author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Bloc, White Riot\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Great French Revolution, 1789–1793\u003c\/em\u003e constitutes a monumental achievement and is the best-known of all anarchist historical works. In it, Kropotkin perceptively analyzes the roots in the revolution of the fateful struggle between centralized authority and popular power that was to pervade modern political history. He argues that the prospects of the revolution depended on the achievement of communal self-determination and communalization of the land. His communist anarchist analysis of the revolution becomes increasingly relevant today, as attention turns to the history and politics of the commons.”\u003cbr\u003e —John P. Clark, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBetween Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“Kropotkin’s \u003cem\u003eThe Great French Revolution, 1789–1793\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential work of history from below, giving a nuanced account of one of the most important upheavals from the perspective of the masses of ordinary people who made it happen. It’s great to see it back in print.”\u003cbr\u003e —Working Class History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“One hundred years ago, Peter Kropotkin’s death occasioned the last public gathering of anarchists in Russia for over six decades. Today his revolutionary yet commonsense ethics have come to life again, resurrected by the widespread embrace of mutual aid during the pandemic. But Kropotkin also still has much to say, always with gentle care and strong principles, about the twin disasters of capitalism and the state, and in contrast, the promise of liberatory transformation via confederal forms of self-organization. So don’t just mourn this dead anarchist; use the words of a rebel as inspiration to fight like hell for the living!”\u003cbr\u003e —Cindy Milstein, author of \u003cem\u003eAnarchism and Its Aspirations\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Kropotkin\u003c\/strong\u003e (1842–1921) was the foremost theorist of the anarchist movement. Born a Russian Prince, he rejected his title to become a revolutionary, seeking a society based on freedom, equality, and solidarity. Imprisoned for his activism in Russia and France, his writings include \u003cem\u003eThe Conquest of Bread\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eFields, Factories, and Workshops\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eAnarchism, Anarchist-Communism, and the State\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMemoirs of a Revolutionist\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eModern Science and Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e. New editions of his classic works \u003cem\u003eMutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWords of a Rebel\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eThe Great French Revolution, 1789–1793\u003c\/em\u003e will be published by PM Press to commemorate his life and work on the centennial of his death.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Berry\u003c\/strong\u003e taught French, history and politics at Loughborough University, where he was a member of the Anarchism Research Group, for over thirty years. Among other things, he has published \u003cem\u003eA History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945\u003c\/em\u003e (AK Press, 2009); \u003cem\u003eNew Perspectives on Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLabour and Syndicalism: The Individual, the National and the Transnational\u003c\/em\u003e (CSP, 2010), coedited with Constance Bantman; \u003cem\u003eLibertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red\u003c\/em\u003e (PM Press, 2017), coedited with Alex Prichard, Ruth Kinna, and Saku Pinta, and edited \u003cem\u003eFor a Libertarian Communism\u003c\/em\u003e (PM Press, 2017) by Daniel Guérin. Recently retired from wage slavery, he is currently putting the finishing touches to \u003cem\u003eA Life in the Service of Revolution: Daniel Guérin, 1904–1988\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIain McKay\u003c\/strong\u003e is an independent anarchist writer and researcher. He was the main author of \u003cem\u003eAn Anarchist FAQ\u003c\/em\u003e as well as numerous other works, including \u003cem\u003eMutual Aid: An Introduction and Evaluation\u003c\/em\u003e. In addition, he has edited and introduced \u003cem\u003eProperty Is Theft! 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