[1] Kropotkin's Memoirs address the arc of his life, the development of his anarchist philosophy, and his activism for socialist causes.

He discusses his exile and activism in Western Europe after escaping from a Russian jail.

[1] Elements of what would become Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist were first published in The Atlantic Monthly between 1898 and 1899 in English, the same year it received its first publication from Houghton Mifflin with an introduction by Georg Brandes.

Both use endnotes to address Kropotkin's subsequent Russian-language additions in the translation of his Memoirs.

While he praised the editors' extensive notes and sufficient indices, he felt that ready footnotes (on page bottom) would have been more appropriate than endnotes for putting Kropotkin's additions in context, and that the 1933 Russian edition's illustrations would have been worthwhile imports.