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Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, revolutionary who became the wife of Vladimir I. Lenin, played a central role in the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party, and was a prominent member of the Soviet educational bureaucracy. A Marxist activist in St. Petersburg in the early 1890s, Krupskaya met Lenin.

The Russian revolutionary leader, Vladimir Lenin, loved two women: his spouse Nadezhda Krupskaya, and the French-Russian communist, Inessa Armand. Despite the rivalry between the two women, all...

Nadezhda (Nadya) Krupskaya was a significant figure in the radical movement that made the Russian Revolution a century ago. But, like many women in politics before and after her, Krupskaya...

Nadezhada K. Krupskaya Nadezhda K. Krupskaya 1869–1939 Krupskaya was a Russian revolutionary, writer, educator and Secretary of the Bolshevik Faction of the Social Democratic Party. Wife and advisor to V.I. Lenin. Secretary to the Board of Iskra beginning in 1901. In 1917, Inessa Armand, Clara Zetkin, and N. K. Krupskaya pressured Russian

Died. 27 February 1939 (aged 70) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya ( Russian: Надежда Константиновна Крупская, scientific transliteration Nadežda Konstantinovna Krupskaja) (26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1869 - February 27, 1939) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary.

KRUPSKAYA, NADEZHDA KONSTANTINOVNA. (1869 – 1939), revolutionary, educator, head of Glavpolitprosvet (the Chief Committee for Political Education) and deputy head of the Commissariat of Enlightenment, full member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (1927 – 1939), wife of Vladimir Ilich Lenin.

Krupskaya, Nadezhda (1869–1939) Russian educator, writer, Marxist revolutionary, and wife of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who took on Stalin but was powerless to stop him. Name variations: N.K. Krupskaya; Nadya Krupskaia; Nadya Lenin. Pronunciation: NA-de-AH KROOP-skay-yah.

The new Soviet system eventually materialized through the 1917 revolutions and the long Civil War struggle that followed. Throughout these developments, Nadezhda Krupskaya — a key leader of the Bolshevik women’s movement and Lenin’s wife — may have had a greater impact on this system than previously thought.