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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 338 pages. The Russian revolutionary, Peter Kroptkin's memoirs. Kroptkin (1842-1921) , advocated anarcho-communism. When Kropotkin read that the Council of People's Commissars had decided to hold as hostages several different officers of (Peter von) Wrangel's army. He wrote to Lenin in protest: "It is possible that you do not know what a hostage really is - a man imprisoned not because of a crime committed but only because it suits his enemies to exert blackmail on his companions? .If you admit such methods, one can forsee that one day you will use torture, as was done in the Middle Ages." Includes an Epilogue, Bibliography, Notes, Index. Pages have underlining and margin notes. …