Nadezhda Krupskaya, born on this day in 1869, was a Bolshevik revolutionary, feminist, and librarian who helped develop the Soviet educational system. In 1926, she authored a memoir of her life and the life of her husband, Vladimir Lenin.
Krupskaya was born to an aristocratic, well-educated family, but grew up with a working class experience. From a young age, Krupskaya was committed to improving the lives of the poor, and was influenced by Leo Tolstoy's ideas and, later, Marxism.
Nadezhda met Lenin at an illegal Marxist discussion group (the works of Marx were banned) in February 1894. In October 1896, Krupskaya was arrested and sentenced to three years exile in Ufa. Before she was deported, Nadezhda received a "secret note" from Lenin, which suggested that she could take refuge in his village of exile if she became his fiancée. This offer was accepted.
Krupskaya was politically active in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, a precursor to the Bolshevik movement, helping edit the party's newspaper, "Iskra" ("Spark"). After the 1917 Russian Revolution, she was appointed deputy to the People's Commissar for Education and later served as Deputy Education Commissar (government minister) from 1929 to 1939.
During this time, Krupskaya was fundamental in the development of the system of Soviet libraries, establishing formal training for librarians to make them good stewards for working class education and facilitators of the communist revolution.
According to American Soviet scholar Robert V. Daniels, in December 1922, after Lenin had suffered a second stroke, Krupskaya had a violent quarrel with Stalin after she denied him access to Lenin, who she claimed was too ill.
In 1930, she gave a speech defending the leaders of the right wing opposition against Stalin, Nikolai Bukharin and Alexei Rykov. Despite this, Nadezhda retained her post as Deputy Education Commissar until the year of her death in 1939.
In 1926, Krupskaya wrote a memoir of her life with Lenin, translated in 1930 as "Memories of Lenin" and in 1959 as "Reminiscences of Lenin." The text gives the most detailed account of Lenin's life before his coming to power, ending in 1919.
"Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment."
- Nadezhda Krupskaya
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Somehow the youth is full of young male virgins who cant get laid because feminism made all women hate sex but at the same time they can't stop fucking in school bathrooms 24/7
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UTIs notwithstanding if u put enough holes in a dick could u play it like a woodwind instrument
if u had someone that was really good at farts and u put like three dick flutes in their butt would it play like a bagpipe or would it be more of a melodica type deal
You'd also need to widen the urethra to the point where it's capable of functioning as a resonator in a frequency range audible to humans
Every day I wake up thinking, "I can't take much more of this."
Somehow, a year has passed. A year of thinking, "I can't take much more of this."
And now, a much more concerning thought, "What if I can take much more of this?"
"What if I can take a decade of this?"
That seemed like so much time not so long ago. Now, I can feel it passing.
Will I take a lifetime of this? I hope not.
I've done under 1500 before and always struggled with it too. I totally get that anxiety of being like how do I fit 3 meals into that?
:lenin-sleeping: :flattened-bernie: : Can I please be buried next to my family
:josus-stalin: :so-true: : Time to create a communist hajj!
keeping his corpse around is extraordinarily creepy
made even worse that it's directly against his wishes
books are gay
friends are gay
reading is gay
reading a book next to your friend?
pretty gaythe description: "built like a bean pole, awkwardly gangly, nose a bit crooked, constantly looks tired, smile just a little too wide, lazy eye"
the fanart: instagram model
sigh
This was a whole thing back in the 90s and 00s. They'd put the most beautiful actress in hollywood in glasses with her hair up wearing coveralls and the plot of the movie would be "weird looking nerd girl comes out of her shell and is actually beautiful!" Deeply weird couple of decades.
yeah
very conventionally attractive actress wearing glasses: ew uggo
takes glasses off
:awooga:who's outside my house screaming "suspension of disbelief!!"? i'll throw you down a well
built like a bean pole, awkwardly gangly, nose a bit crooked, constantly looks tired, smile just a little too wide, lazy eye
Adam Friedland?
Every humanization of a cartoon animal is just "Ooops! All white twinks!" no matter where the animal is actually geographically from.
Sometimes I just load up a private GTA V online server and hit the bong with my character
We ran out of firewood so I spent a couple hours today bucking and splitting an old dead ash. It’s burning great and I now have enough wood to take me through March unless it gets REALLY cold
I feel proud of myself, I love splitting wood for my family, it is my ultimate expression of love even if they don’t realize it. There’s great satisfaction in giving them warmth with nothing but hard work and the materials gifted us by nature :grillman:
I remember hearing somewhere that when Lenin and Krupskaya met, it consisted of Lenin saying her work was pointless or something and then there was an argument