By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper.

Kropotkin has many claims to greatness. An important conduit for the  transmission of Russian revolutionary ideas into western Europe and a  powerful propagandist for revolution in Russia in the decades leading up  to 1917, he spent most of his life tirelessly promoting anarchism as a  distinctive political philosophy and revolutionary practice. He played  an instrumental role in two of the nineteenth-century movement's most  influential papers, Le Révolté and Freedom, and was generally credited  with being the founder of anarchist communism.