''Le Révolté'' was an
anarcho-communist journal started by
Peter Kropotkin
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (; russian: link=no, Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин ; 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, historian, scientist, philosopher, and activis ...
, along with
François Dumartheray
François Dumartheray (1842-1931) was a French anarcho-communist activist. He was a member of the International Workingmen's Association and the Jura Federation, and collaborated with Peter Kropotkin in the journal '' Le Révolté''.
Biography ...
and Georg Herzig, in February 1879.
The journal was partially funded by
Elisée Reclus, Kropotkin's mentor. At the time of the journal's founding, Reclus and Kropotkin were living in the village of
Clarens on
Lake Geneva. The journal itself was published in
Geneva. After Kropotkin was expelled from
Switzerland
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and convicted in the Lyon trial of 1883 (for belonging to a defunct organization, i.e.,
The International), ''Le Révolté'' needed a new editor. Elisée Reclus, who had become quite friendly with
Jean Grave, recommended Grave for the editorship and, after some hesitation, Grave accepted and moved to Geneva in 1883. Due to difficulties in getting the journal into
France as well as Swiss
police harassment, in 1885 Grave moved back to France with the journal. The last issue of ''Le Révolté'' was 14 March 1885. In 1887 the journal became ''La Révolte''. The switch to ''La Révolte'' resulted from a desperate and ineffective effort to avoid legal responsibility for a fine assessed the journal for participating in an illegal
lottery
A lottery is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize. Some governments outlaw lotteries, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of ...
in support of
military desertion. ''Le Révolté'' was issued semimonthly before May 1886 and afterwards was a four-page weekly. The journal's circulation in 1886 was about 4,000 and by 1889 had grown to 6,000. After 1895, the journal was named ''Les Temps Nouveaux;'' it ceased publication in 1914.
References
*Louis Patsouras (2003). ''The Anarchism of Jean Grave''.
Montreal:
Black Rose Books.
*Martin A. Miller, (1976). ''
Kropotkin''.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
*Dana Ward (2010). ''"Alchemy in Clarens: Kropotkin and Reclus, 1877-1881."'' New Perspectives on Anarchism. eds., Nathan Jun, Sol Neely, and Shane Wahl, Lexington Press.
External links
25 November 1882 issue of ''Révolté'' can be found at Anarchy Archives.
Anarchist periodicals
Bi-monthly magazines published in Switzerland
Communist magazines
Defunct magazines published in Switzerland
Defunct political magazines
French-language magazines
Magazines established in 1879
Magazines disestablished in 1885
Magazines published in Geneva
Political magazines published in Switzerland
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