Nadezhda Krupskaya

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Nadezhda Krupskaya

Надежда Крупская
Born26 February 1869
Petrograd, Russian Empire
Died27 February 1939
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union


Nadezhda Krupskaya was a Russian revolutionary and feminist. She was born in 1869 in a progressive family. She met Vladimir Lenin in 1894 and was exiled to Siberia with him in 1896, where they married. In 1903, she moved to Geneva in Switzerland and worked as an editor for Iskra. After the Great October Socialist Revolution, she worked on the People's Commissariat for Education. She established education programs for adults, which provided 30,000 classes to workers and peasants in the Soviet Union.[1]

History

Shift to Trotskyism

References

  1. Candice Yanez (2017-02-26). "Nadezhda Krupskaya: Revolutionary woman and educator" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2022-08-29.