Original Cloth. 8vo. XII, 295 pages. 21 cm. First Yiddish edition. Translated by I. Kisin (George Kussiel Gorin? ) . In Russian And French Prisons, comprised equally of memoir and objective analysis/critique of the prison system in Russia and France. Over a twelve year period, from 1874-1886, Kropotkin spent in the Peter and Paul Fortress and other prisons in Russia, escaped to Switzerland, joined the anarchist Jura Federation, and was later arrested in France, and serving another sentence as a political prisoner (charged for being a member of the IWA) . Appendices to the book includes a brief overview of the work being done by prisoners and exiles in colonizing Siberia as well as an analysis of a French boys reformatory. Published a year after Kropotkin’s death. Subjects: Prisons - Russia. Prisons - France. Anarchism; writers of international importance; Petr A. Kropotkin (author) . Yiddish Anarchism. Light wear to cloth, institutional stamps on endpages and backstrip, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (YID-19-4)