Death Of Leninas Widow
(Received 1.0 p.m.) MOSCOW. February 27.
The death has occurred of Nadeshda Konstantinovna Krupskaya. Lenin’s widow.
She was born in 18G9, and became a teacher. It was while employed in the ’9o’s at a night school for workers in petrograd that she got to know Lenin. Together they founded the “League to Liberate the Workers,” and later the Bolshevik party, of which she was secretary till 1917.
In 1918 their activities led to their banishment for three years.
Madame Lenin devoted herself chiefly to educational work. She helped to found the Commissariat for Education. and initiated the school system, the Young Communist League, and the Department of Political Instruction.
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Northern Advocate, 28 February 1939, Page 7
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