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In Russian and French Prisons

Peter Kropotkin

Language:
English
Status:
Complete work
Authorship:
Written by the author
Condition of the text:
Clean text
Extent:
~100,000 words · 488 passages
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  • APAPeter Kropotkin. (n.d.). In Russian and French Prisons. 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.

Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.

III. — THE FORTRESS OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL 84 IV.— OUTCAST RUSSIA . . . • | • .124 V. — THE EXILE IN SIBERIA . . . .154 VI. — THE EXILE ON SAKHALIN .... 202 VII. — A FOREIGNER ON RUSSIAN PRISONS . . 227 VIII.— IN FRENCH PRISONS 257 IX.— ON THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF PRISONS ON PRISONERS . . . . . . 299 X. — ARE PRISONS NECESSARY? . 338 APPENDIX A.— Trial of the Soldiers accused of having carried Letters from the Alexis Ravelin . 373 iv Contents. PAGE APPENDIX B. — On the part played by the Exiles

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