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ISBN 0-416-72250-4 (hardback)

ISBN 0-416-72260-1 (paperback)
''The Anarchists'' is a book by the Historian James Joll . At 265 pages, it is a relatively brief history of the Anarchist movement, covering its philosophical beginnings in Europe with William Godwin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , the further development by the Russia ns Peter Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin and its influence on the working class movements of the 19th and 20th centuries -- mainly in Europe and Russia, but also in the United States .

''The Anarchists'' was first published in 1964 ; the second edition (pictured) was published in 1979 .


CONTENTS


    Part One
  1. Heresy and Reason

  2. The myth of Revolution

  3. Part Two
  4. Reason and revolution: Proudhon

  5. Bakunin and the great schism

  6. Part Three
  7. Terrorism and Propaganda By The Deed

  8. Saints and Rebel s

  9. The Revolution that failed

  10. Anarchists and syndicalists

  11. Anarchists in action: Spain

  12. Conclusion