GNED 1202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rurik Dynasty, Neoliberalism, Direct Democracy

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: General Education
• Course: GNED 1202
• Professor: Chris Moxham

Document Summary

Study guide: background information on kropotkin: his life and the times in which he wrote (ie. the society that he was critiquing) He was born into privilege and gave it all up. His father is russian prince of the rurik dynasty, which predates the. He enrolls in elite military academy reserved for nobility. Wears many hats in life a. i. a. ii. a. iii. a. iv. a. v. a. vi. No one had a liberal leader at that time. However, its degrees of liberality started to question (he sees poverty, lack of livelihood). He is an army officer, he takes appointment as geographical survey expedition- this is his transition away from nobility. Then, he quits the army to pursue geography research: anarchy as a concept, including communists vs capitalist (libertarianism) types of anarchy b. i. For kropotkin, he is an anarchist in somewhat liberal translation of word, which means without authority, without leadership, without government.