{"product_id":"the-great-french-revolution-1789-1793-9781629638768","title":"The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793","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.\u003c\/p\u003e \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 \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKropotkin, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePeter Kropotkin (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\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerry, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDavid Berry 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\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525641015570,"sku":"9781629638768","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2338638d-c3ed-4fef-8b49-68fca2caf4fb.jpg?v=1737231647","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-french-revolution-1789-1793-9781629638768","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}