'The Conquest of Bread' is one of Kropotkin's most significant contributions to anarchist thought. He reviews past revolutions in France of 1789, 1848 and 1871, in an analysis that is faithful to their successes and their failures. He uses this analysis of the past to suggest how a revolution might achieve a truly free and genuinely egalitarian society in a spirit of anarchist-communist thought. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in anarchist thought and theory.