This text was taken from In Russian and French Prisons, London: Ward and Downey; 1887.

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In Russian and French Prisons

Peter Kropotkin

CONTENTS

Introductory i
CHAPTER I
My First Acquaintance With Russian Prisons 1
CHAPTER II
Russian Prisons 15
CHAPTER III
The Fortress of St. Peter and St.Paul 29
CHAPTER IV
Outcast Russia 44
CHAPTER V
The Exile in Siberia 61
CHAPTER VI
The Exile on Sakhalin 96
CHAPTER VII
A Foreigner on Russian Prisons 110
CHAPTER VIII
In French Prisons 114
CHAPTER IX
On The Moral Influence of Prisons on Prisoners 124
CHAPTER X
Are Prisons Necessary? 144
APPENDIX A
Trial of the Soldiers accused of having
carried Letters from the Alexis Ravelin 		109
APPENDIX B
On the part played by the Exiles in the
Colonization of Siberia 		176
APPENDIX C
Extract from a Report on "Administrative
Exile," read by M. Schakeef at the Sitting
of the St. Petersburg Nobility on February 17, 1881 		194
APPENDIX D
On Reformatories for Boys in France 262
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