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Nadezhda Krupskaya

Bolshevik organiser and Soviet education official; Vladimir Lenin's wife from 1898 until his death in 1924.

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Dates
26 Feb 1869 – 27 Feb 1939
Also known as
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, N. K. Krupskaya, Nadya Krupskaya
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  1. Life 26 Feb 1869 – 27 Feb 1939
  2. member of Bolsheviks (helped found it; organiser) 1903 – 8 Mar 1918
  3. worked at People's Commissariat of Education (member of its collegium from 1917; deputy People's Commissar from 1929) 1917–1939
  4. member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (member of the Central Committee) 1927–1939

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worked at

  • People's Commissariat of Education 1917–1939 member of its collegium from 1917; deputy People's Commissar from 1929 Scholarship & press 13

    The Presidential Library notes she was largely removed from the commissariat's work in the 1930s.

wife of

  • Vladimir Lenin Scholarship & press 124

    Married on 22 July 1898 (10 July Old Style) at Shushenskoye in Siberia, where Lenin was in exile. She was his wife until his death in 1924.

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  1. 26 Feb 1869 – 27 Feb 1939 Nadezhda Krupskaya
  2. 1903 – 8 Mar 1918 Nadezhda Krupskaya member of Bolsheviks
  3. 1917–1939 Nadezhda Krupskaya worked at People's Commissariat of Education
  4. 1927–1939 Nadezhda Krupskaya member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Proof 4 sources
  1. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 20 Jul 1998. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    She supported him in his factional feuds within the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party, helped found the Bolsheviks, and assumed a large degree of responsibility for organizing its members inside Russia.
    after the Bolsheviks seized power (October 1917), became a member of the collegium of the People’s Commissariat of Education.
    On July 10 (July 22, New Style), 1898, Krupskaya and Lenin were married.
  2. Krupskaya, Nadezhda Konstantinovna, Encyclopedia of Russian History (Macmillan Reference USA), via Encyclopedia.com, 2004. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    From 1927 to 1939 she served as a full member of the (now much weakened) Central Committee of the Party.
    When she and Lenin were both arrested in 1895 and 1896, she followed him to Siberia as his fiancée and later as his wife.
  3. Birth of Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, Russian statesman and party leader, theorist and organizer of Soviet pedagogical science and public education system, Presidential Library (Russia). Scholarship & press Archived copy
    since 1927 - member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
    Nadezhda Krupskaya began working at the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR and in 1929 became deputy people's commissar.
  4. Historic Figures: Vladimir Lenin (1870 - 1924), BBC, 6 Nov 2006. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    Like many of his contemporaries, he was arrested and exiled to Siberia, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya.
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