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| | Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | She was arrested in August 1896, and, when sentenced in 1898 to three years of exile, she obtained permission to spend her term with Lenin, who was then in exile in Shushenskoye, Siberia. |
 | | Returning to Russia after the February Revolution of 1917, Krupskaya spread Bolshevik propaganda, carried messages from Lenin to his colleagues while he was hiding in Finland (JulyOctober), and, after the Bolsheviks seized power (October 1917), became a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Education. |
 | | She continued to serve the party, although her influence was never restored, and her memoirs, Vospominaniya o Lenine (1957; Recollections of Lenin), were criticized for erroneously depicting Lenin; her publications on education, Pedagogicheskive sochineniya, 11 vol. |
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