DescriptionThe Conquest of Bread is Peter Kropotkins most detailed description of the ideal society, embodying anarchist communism, and of the social revolution that was to achieve it. Marshall Shatzs introduction to this edition traces Kropotkins evolution as an anarchist, from his origins in the Russian aristocracy to his disillusionment with the Russian Revolution. The volume also includes a number of his shorter writings, including a hitherto untranslated chapter from his classic Memoirs of a Revolutionist.