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À paraître : Pierre Kropotkine, "La Conquête du Pain," édition de livre de poche, 2020. Avec des illustrations de Clifford Harper. ISBN 9781926878225

Now in production: "Kropotkin and Canada" by Alexey G. Ivanov. An excerpt from pp. 39-40: The politician-anarchist had his own logic of public behaviour, including refraining from socializing with State functionaries, which could attract the attention of the press and discredit him in the eyes of society. Such a situation could have arisen at one of the banquets held during the congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, where Kropotkin happened to com...e face to face with Lord Aberdeen, the Governor-General of Canada. Here’s what Kropotkin himself wrote in a letter to his wife: ". . . In Toronto, I naturally kept away from any receptions involving the Governor-General, Lord Aberdeen. I didn’t go to any of these receptions. I did go to a social at the university, but when I saw that one had to pass by Aberdeen to get into the upstairs hall, I stayed in the downstairs hall. Suddenly, while I was speaking with a lady, an officer stopped in front of me and I thought 'Has he come to arrest me?' It turned out it was Aberdeen coming to introduce himself. Of course I greeted him very politely. He’s a youngish man and strikes one as quite sincere.

Forthcoming: "Kropotkin and Canada" by Alexey G. Ivanov. 240 pp. ISBN 978-1-926878-21-8. The Russian scientist and revolutionary Peter Kropotkin visited Canada in 1897, travelling from one end of the country to the other. A fugitive from government oppression in his Russian homeland, Kropotkin found a warm reception in Canada, where he was given the opportunity to study his particular interests: rural development, cooperative movements, and the condition of indigenous peoples. Kropotkin’s Canadian visit had a profound influence on his thinking but has been scarcely touched upon by his biographers. This study by Russian researcher A. G. Ivanov, based on archival documents including Kropotkin’s Canadian diary, shows how the anarchist’s ideas were affected by his understanding of Canada’s historical experience.