Santa Monica College Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropótkin Essay

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One paragraph for each question

  1. Compare and contrast Adam Smith’s and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s view about the relationship between individuals and societies (community) and then explain how Rousseau is considered by some scholars to be a forbearer of communism?
  2. According to Peter Kropótkin in Memoirs of a Revolutionist, what was surprising about the reaction to abolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861 among the upper classes why might they have had this reaction?
    1. What prompted enlightened absolutists to undertake reforms in the second half of the eighteenth century?
    2. Other than sharing a roughly common time frame, what are some of the similarities and differences between the American, French and Haitian Revolutions?
    3. Why was Eastern Europe slower to industrialize than the West?