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Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. She was a leading figure in the Bolshevik party and was married to Vladimir Lenin.
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culture · Wife of Vladimir Lenin (1869–1939) · librarian · writer · teacher · politician · also Nadezhda Krupskaya, Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Nadezhda Krupskaia, Krupskaya
Born 26 February 1869 · Died 27 February 1939 · Q215637
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Opis: z relacji profesora Panochawy opowiedzianej w 1949; Stalin wypowiedział te słowa do Krupskiej w gniewie, gdy ta sprzeciwiła mu się w jakiejś sprawie).
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“We have a laughable number of libraries, and their book stocks are even more inadequate. Their quality is terrible, the majority of the population does not know how to use them and does not even know what a library is.”
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Nadezhda Krupskaya was portrayed by an Estonian actress Helene Vannari in the Hardi Volmer directed Estonian historic comedy All My Lenins
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As saying "I can't dismiss that possibility
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Jane Barnes Casey wrote a fictional memoir of her life I, Krupskaya: My Life with Lenin (Houghton Mifflin Company; ISBN 0-395-18501-7)
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By Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova was named in her honour
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“Opis: z relacji profesora Panochawy opowiedzianej w 1949; Stalin wypowiedział te słowa do Krupskiej w gniewie, gdy ta sprzeciwiła mu się w jakiejś sprawie).”
Died 1939-02-27.
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A Leningrad chocolate factory was renamed in her honour
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Leon Trotsky had made similar assertions about the circumstances of Krupskaya's death
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Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1938–1939).
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Career landmark: member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1938).
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Defended restrictions on abortion passed by the Soviet government in that year, arguing that they were part of a consistent policy pursued since 1920 to do away with the reasons to have an abortion
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As Memories of Lenin and in 1959 as Reminiscences of Lenin
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Krupskaya opposed Stalin again
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Krupskaya attacked Leon Trotsky in a polemic reply to Trotsky's tract Lessons of October
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A member of its control commission in 1927, a member of the Supreme Soviet in 1931 and an honorary citizen in 1931
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That "I don't know whether Trotsky is guilty of all the deadly sins of which he is accused
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And was the deputy education commissar (government minister) from 1929 to 1939
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Was appointed deputy to Anatoliy Lunacharskiy, the People's Commissar for Education, where she took charge of Vneshkol'nyi Otdel of the Adult Education Division
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For revolutionary activities and after Lenin was exiled to Siberia, Krupskaya was allowed to join him in 1898 on the condition that they marry
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Joined a Marxist circle organised by the engineer, Robert Klasson
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Born 1869-02-26.
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