这是一部极富文学情趣的回忆录，有多种文字译本，多年流传不衰。
克鲁泡特金缕述他作为一个贵族子弟，怎样倾向进步，终于参加反沙皇的运动，出生入死。他又是一个地理学家，多年在西伯利亚进行探险活动，对地理科学很有贡献，甚至在监狱中也研究不辍。从政治观点说，无政府主义者克鲁泡特金当然是与马克思主义相对立的，但是他反对反动政权的决心并不因此有所改变，毕生保持自己的革命立场。对于这样的革命家，纵然他走的道路有其错误之处，马克思主义者也不应该视如敝履，把他们从历史上抹掉。事实上，克鲁泡特金晚年也是拥护十月革命的。

《"面包的征服"及其他著作》主要内容：The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin was the world`s foremost spodesman of anarchism at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.The Conquest of Bread is his most detailed description of the ideal society ,embodying anarchist communism,and of the social revolution that was to achieve it.Marshall Shatz`s introduction to this edition traces Kropotkin`s evolution as an anarchist from his origins in the Russian aristocracy to his disllusionment with the Russian Revolution,and the volume also includes a hitherto untranslated chapter from his clallic Memeoirs of a Revolutionist,which contains colourful character - sketches of some of his fellow anarchists,as well as an article he wrote summarizing the history of anarchism ,and some of his views on the Revolution.
MARSHALL.S.SHATZ,is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.His Publications include Soviet Dissent in Historical Perspective （Cambridge,1980）,Jan Wadaw Machajski:A Radical Critic of the Russian Intelligentsia and Socialism (Pittsburgh,1989）,and an edition of Bakunin s Statism and Anarchy for this series(Cambridge,1990）.