Memoirs of a Revolutionist vs Roads to Freedom: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Anarchism and anarchists, Anarchists, Anarchism
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Published in Atlantic monthly Sep. 1898-Sep. 1899 under title The autobiography of a revolutionist. Graphic details of Russian conditions and of an eventful life. — A.L.A. Catalog 1904 “Kropotkin’s story is a singularly…
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Roads to Freedom
THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose Republic''…
The verdict
- Readers rate Memoirs of a Revolutionist highest: Memoirs of a Revolutionist 4.2 · Roads to Freedom 3.9.
- Roads to Freedom is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 9 for Memoirs of a Revolutionist.
- Roads to Freedom has the widest readership — 1064 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Memoirs of a Revolutionist | Roads to Freedom | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.2 (842) | 3.9 (1064) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (14) |
Reception
| Memoirs of a Revolutionist | Roads to Freedom | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 842 | 1064 |
| Editions | 100 | 59 |
| Citations | — | 33 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 3070 | 3470 |
| Reading it now | 109 | 174 |
| Written reviews | 78 | 115 |
| Wikipedia attention | 195 | 1448 |
| Pages | 502 | 158 |