In Russian and French Prisons

Kropotkin, Peter

Publisher: Black Rose Books, New York, USA
Year First Published: {9480 In Russian and French Prisons IN RUSSIAN AND FRENCH PRISONS Kropotkin, Peter Black Rose Books New York USA Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails. 1906 1991 387pp BL0971-PeterKropotkin.jpg B Book 0-921689-99-3 HV9712.K2 365'.947'09034 In Russian and French Prisons is Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and is an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails. Kropotkin makes extensive use of the memoirs of former prisoners and the works of contemporary penologists as well as his own personal experience (he spent two years in prison in Russia and three years in France). Although the greater part of the book is focused on Russian prisons, one chapter is devoted to a description of what the author saw in the Lyons provincial prison and the central prison at Clairvaux, in France. The last two chapters of the book contain an analysis "of the profoundly harmful influence which prisons everywhere exert on social morality" Kropotkin was born a prince of the old nobility of Moscow, was trained as a page in the Emperor's court, and at twenty became an officer in the army. The discovery that he was engaged in revolutionary activities led him to be arrested and held in prison for two years without a trial. He escaped in disguise and lived in exile for the next forty-two years, doing scientific research and writing for periodicals in many countries. He returned to Russia in 1917 and was an early opponents of Lenin's government. [Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary] Table of Contents INTRODUCTION TO THE 1991 EDITION BY GEORGE WOODCOCK AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE RUSSIAN EDITION(1906) INTRODUCTORY I. -MY FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH RUSSIAN PRISONS II. -RUSSIAN PRISONS III. -THE FORTRESS OF ST. PETER AND ST.PAUL IV. -OUTCAST RUSSIA V. -THE EXILE IN SIBERIA VI. -THE EXILE ON SAKHALIN VII. -A FOREIGNER IN RUSSIAN PRISONS VIII.-IN FRENCH PRISONS IX. -ON THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF PRISONS X. - ARE PRISONS NECESSARY? APPENDIX A.-Trial of the Soldiers accused of having carried Letters from Alexis Ravelin APPENDIX B.-On the part played by the Exiles in the Colonization of Siberia APPENDIX C.- Extract from a Report on "Administrative Exile," read by M. Shakeeff at the Sitting of the St.Petersburg Nobility on February, 1881 APPENDIX D.- On Reformatories for Boys in France INDEX CX4574 1 false true false CX4574.htm [0xc000482d20 0xc000483770 0xc000483a40 0xc000492630 0xc0004a2420 0xc0004a2a20 0xc0004a3a40 0xc0004a3ec0 0xc0004b4150 0xc0005e1e00 0xc0006c32f0 0xc000b38510 0xc00057e6c0 0xc001ff9920 0xc000cf3c20 0xc000ded440 0xc002258fc0 0xc00226d9e0] Cx}
Year Published: 1991
Pages: 387pp ISBN: 0-921689-99-3
Library of Congress Number: HV9712.K2 Dewey: 365'.947'09034
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX4574

Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.

Abstract:
In Russian and French Prisons is Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and is an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails. Kropotkin makes extensive use of the memoirs of former prisoners and the works of contemporary penologists as well as his own personal experience (he spent two years in prison in Russia and three years in France). Although the greater part of the book is focused on Russian prisons, one chapter is devoted to a description of what the author saw in the Lyons provincial prison and the central prison at Clairvaux, in France. The last two chapters of the book contain an analysis "of the profoundly harmful influence which prisons everywhere exert on social morality"

Kropotkin was born a prince of the old nobility of Moscow, was trained as a page in the Emperor's court, and at twenty became an officer in the army. The discovery that he was engaged in revolutionary activities led him to be arrested and held in prison for two years without a trial. He escaped in disguise and lived in exile for the next forty-two years, doing scientific research and writing for periodicals in many countries. He returned to Russia in 1917 and was an early opponents of Lenin's government.

[Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary]

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE 1991 EDITION
BY GEORGE WOODCOCK

AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE RUSSIAN EDITION(1906)

INTRODUCTORY
I. -MY FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH RUSSIAN PRISONS
II. -RUSSIAN PRISONS
III. -THE FORTRESS OF ST. PETER AND ST.PAUL
IV. -OUTCAST RUSSIA
V. -THE EXILE IN SIBERIA
VI. -THE EXILE ON SAKHALIN
VII. -A FOREIGNER IN RUSSIAN PRISONS
VIII.-IN FRENCH PRISONS
IX. -ON THE MORAL INFLUENCE OF PRISONS
X. - ARE PRISONS NECESSARY?

APPENDIX A.-Trial of the Soldiers accused of having carried Letters from Alexis Ravelin

APPENDIX B.-On the part played by the Exiles in the Colonization of Siberia

APPENDIX C.- Extract from a Report on "Administrative Exile," read by M. Shakeeff at the Sitting of the St.Petersburg Nobility on February, 1881

APPENDIX D.- On Reformatories for Boys in France

INDEX

In Russian and French Prisons

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