# Peter Kropotkin

> A Russian prince who walked away from aristocracy to become anarchism's most systematic theorist - and its gentlest voice. Kropotkin argued that cooperation, not competition, drives evolution, and that a stateless society built on mutual aid wasn't utopian dreaming but biological fact.

*Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842-1921)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/peter-kropotkin

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Activist
- **Category:** Activists
- **Country:** Russia
- **Born:** 1842-11-27
- **Died:** 1921-02-08
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born into landed nobility in 1842, Kropotkin served as a Tsarist officer and led geological expeditions across Siberia before his thinking turned. Arrested for activism in 1874, he escaped prison two years later and began 41 years of exile that took him through Switzerland, France (including nearly four years in jail), and England. During that stretch he wrote The Conquest of Bread in 1892, Fields, Factories, and Workshops in 1899, and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution in 1902 - the latter his attempt to ground anarchist communism in science, not sentiment. He returned to Russia after the 1917 revolution only to watch the Bolsheviks build exactly the kind of centralized state he'd spent a lifetime arguing against. He died in 1921, his work on anarchist ethics unfinished.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 74.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 17.1 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 14.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
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