1874 年, 俄羅斯聖彼得堡齣現一個奇怪的演說傢, 他自稱鮑羅廷, 三天兩頭跑到聖彼德堡的廣場上, 鼓動人們起來革命。誰也不知道這個傢夥的真實身份, 隻知道他有時一身農民打扮, 有時又裝扮得像個剛下班的工人, 到處散發自己寫的小冊子,發錶煽動性演說。聖彼得堡的居民們都在議論這個奇怪的演說傢和他的“ 無政府主義” 學說。

俄國政府決心製止這位無法無天的“ 鮑羅廷”。可是當秘密警察費瞭九牛二虎之力將其逮捕的時候, 沙皇和宮中所有的人們驚訝得差點連下巴都掉下來瞭, 原來這位煽動革命的傢夥竟然就是沙皇的貼身侍衛, 大名鼎鼎的剋魯泡特金王子。

《"麵包的徵服"及其他著作》主要內容：The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin was the world`s foremost spodesman of anarchism at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.The Conquest of Bread is his most detailed description of the ideal society ,embodying anarchist communism,and of the social revolution that was to achieve it.Marshall Shatz`s introduction to this edition traces Kropotkin`s evolution as an anarchist from his origins in the Russian aristocracy to his disllusionment with the Russian Revolution,and the volume also includes a hitherto untranslated chapter from his clallic Memeoirs of a Revolutionist,which contains colourful character - sketches of some of his fellow anarchists,as well as an article he wrote summarizing the history of anarchism ,and some of his views on the Revolution.

MARSHALL.S.SHATZ,is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.His Publications include Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective （Cambridge,1980）,Jan Wadaw Machajski:A Radical Critic of the Russian Intelligentsia and Socialism (Pittsburgh,1989）,and an edition of Bakunin s Statism and Anarchy for this series(Cambridge,1990）.