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Peter Kropotkin

1842 - 1921

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Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism. Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, Kropotkin attended the Page Corps and later served as an officer in Siberia, where he participated in several geological expeditions. He was imprisoned for his activism in 1874 and managed to escape two years later. He spent the next 41 years in exile in Switzerland, France (where he was imprisoned for almost four years) and England. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Kropotkin is the 21st most popular social activist (down from 20th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Russia and the most popular Russian Social Activist.

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist and geographer who is most famous for his book "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution."

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Peter Kropotkin ranks 21 out of 840. Before him are Bertha von Suttner, Rosa Parks, Nicholas Winton, Jean-Paul Marat, Gustav I of Sweden, and Mary Harris Jones. After him are Betty Williams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Élie Ducommun, Sophia of Prussia, Emily Greene Balch, and Guy Fawkes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Peter Kropotkin ranks 5. Before him are John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Abdul Hamid II, Stéphane Mallarmé, and William James. After him are Jules Massenet, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Alfred Marshall, Karl May, Dominic Savio, Josef Breuer, and Camille Flammarion. Among people deceased in 1921, Peter Kropotkin ranks 4. Before him are Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Lippmann, and Enrico Caruso. After him are Prince Louis of Battenberg, Nicholas I of Montenegro, Peter I of Serbia, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Alfred Hermann Fried, Ludwig III of Bavaria, and Carl Menger.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Peter Kropotkin ranks 60 out of 3,761. Before him are Georgy Malenkov (1902), Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Alexander Kerensky (1881), Georg Cantor (1845), and Rurik (830). After him are Frederick I of Prussia (1657), Otto Wallach (1847), Yaroslav the Wise (978), Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Andrei Sakharov (1921), and Boris Spassky (1937).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Peter Kropotkin ranks 1. After him are Witold Pilecki (1901), Yemelyan Pugachev (1742), Alexey Stakhanov (1906), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Alexei Navalny (1976), Stenka Razin (1630), Sergey Nechayev (1847), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923), Maria Spiridonova (1884), and Ales Bialiatski (1962).

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