In Russian and French Prisons
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~100,000 words · 488 passages
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- APAPeter Kropotkin. (n.d.). In Russian and French Prisons. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/peter-kropotkin/in-russian-and-french-prisons
- MLAPeter Kropotkin. In Russian and French Prisons. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/peter-kropotkin/in-russian-and-french-prisons.
- ChicagoPeter Kropotkin. In Russian and French Prisons. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/peter-kropotkin/in-russian-and-french-prisons.
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What it is about
In Russian and French Prisons (1887): written by someone who had been in both.
Context and history
Kropotkin escaped the Peter and Paul fortress and later spent three years in a French prison. The book is not memoir but study: what a prison does to those who enter it, and why it corrects nobody. It influenced European penal reform.
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