Memoirs of a Revolutionist
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Texte propre
- Étendue:
- ~190 000 mots · 911 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAPierre Kropotkine. (n.d.). Memoirs of a Revolutionist. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/peter-kropotkin/memoirs-of-a-revolutionist
- MLAPierre Kropotkine. "Memoirs of a Revolutionist." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/peter-kropotkin/memoirs-of-a-revolutionist.
- ChicagoPierre Kropotkine. Memoirs of a Revolutionist. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/peter-kropotkin/memoirs-of-a-revolutionist.
De quoi il s'agit
L'autobiographie de Kropotkine : l'enfance dans une maison noble avec des serfs, le corps des pages du tsar, l'expédition en Sibérie, la conversion à l'anarchisme, la prison et l'évasion.
Contexte et histoire
Il l'écrivit en anglais et elle parut d'abord en feuilleton dans une revue américaine, en 1898-1899, avant de devenir un livre. Cela explique le ton : elle s'adresse à un public qui ignorait ce qu'était un anarchiste et à qui il fallait l'expliquer sans l'effrayer. Le récit de l'évasion de la forteresse Pierre-et-Paul est le morceau dont tout le monde se souvient. Il vaut mieux la lire pour ce qu'elle est : un livre de propagande au bon sens du terme, écrit pour convaincre, non un document neutre.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
to the present time its different parts have wonderfully well retained the features which have been stamped upon them in the slow course of history. The Trans-Moskva River district, with its broad, sleepy streets and its monotonous gray-painted, low-roofed houses, of which the entrancegates remain securely bolted day and night, has always been the secluded abode of the merchant class, and the stronghold of the outwardly austere, formalistic, and despotic Nonconformists of the “Old Faith.” The citadel, or Kreml, is still the stronghold of church and state ; and the immense space in front of it, covered with thousands of shops and warehouses, has been for centuries a crowded beehive of commerce, and still remains the heart of a great internal trade which spreads over the whole surface of the vast empire. ‘The Tverskaya and the Smiths’ Bridge have been for hundreds of years the chief centres for the fashionable shops; while the artisans’ quarters, the Pluschfkha and the Dorogomilovka, retain the very same features which characterized their uproarious populations in the times of the Moscow Tsars. ach quarter isa little world in itself ; each has its own physiognomy, and lives its own separate ae MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST ae MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST life. Even the railways —— when they made an irrupticn into the old capital — grouped apart in special centres on the outskirts of the old town their stores and machineworks, their heavily loaded carts and engines. However, of all parts of Moscow, none, perhaps, is more typical than that labyrinth of clean, quiet, winding streets and lanes which lies at the back of the Kreml, between two great radial streets, the Arbat and the Prechistenka, and is still called the Old Equerries’ Quarter, — the Staraya Konytishennaya.…