Caroline Cahm. Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872-1886.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Part I

Kropotkin and the development of the theory of anarchist communism

1 – Bakuninism

From reform to revolution: 1872 Kropotkin’s first contact with the International and bakuninism

The Anti-authoritarian International: statist/anti-statist polarisation

2 – Anarchist communism

The origin of anarchist communist ideas

Kropotkin and anarchist communism 1877-1886

Part II

Kropotkin and the development of anarchist ideas of revolutionary action by individuals and small groups (1872-1886)

3 – Revolutionary action and the emergent anarchist movement of the seventies

4 – Propaganda by deed: the development of the idea

5 – Kropotkin and propaganda by deed

6 – Kropotkin and acts of revolt

7 – The Congress of London 1881 and ‘The Spirit of Revolt’

8 – The trial of Lyon 1883 and response to persecution

Part III

Kropotkin and the development of anarchist views of collective revolutionary action (1872-1886)

9 – Trade unionism and the emergent anarchist movement of the seventies

10 – Kropotkin and collective action in the labour movement

Early hostility to trade unions: his denunciation of British trade unionism

The Pittsburgh strikes in the United States and the revival of the labour movement in England and France

The Strikers’ International

Conclusion

Bibliography