Bride of the revolution : Krupskaya and Lenin / by Robert H. McNeal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , c1972.Description: 326 pages: illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0472616005
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 947.084/1/0924 B
LOC classification:
  • DK 254.K77 M3 1972
Contents:
I. Nadezhda means hope -- II. The copper ring -- III. Siberian honeymoon -- IV. First secretary of the Bolshevik Party -- V. Comrade Inessa -- VI. A quiet revolution -- VII. First lady -- VIII. Widow-designate -- IX. The widow and the legacy -- X. Mother of her people -- XI. Epitaphs
Summary: "Some four years after the wedding of Nicholas and Alexandria Romanov in the splendor of the Kremlin, two obscure political convicts -- Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) and Nadezhda Krupskaya -- were married in Sibereia. Twenty years later Lenin and Krupskaya were themselves living in the Kremlin, and the royal Romanovs had been shot .... This book re-creates for the first time the full story of the devoted and determined woman who married the greatest among European revolutionary leaders.... "Krupskaya's marriage was remarkable in many ways. It began with Lenin's ambiguous proposal smuggled into her jail cell, and ended in the intrigue of succession as Lenin lay dying. From close political collaboration during the early emigrant years of the Bolshevik Party, to her role in the long-suppressed story of Lenin's affair with Inessa Armond, Krupskaya proved herself a loyal bride of the revolution. Yet Krupskaya in her own right comes alive tn these pages -- as a youthful Tolstoyan; as an advocate of progressive education and the liberation of women; as chief cryptologist, secretary, and paymaster for the tiny network of revolutionaries; as an ultimately tragic figure, struggling to defend her husband's legacy against the machinations of Joseph Stalin." - from the dust jacket
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks DK 254.K77 M3 1972 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML20080036

Includes bibliographical notes (pages 298-301) and index.

I. Nadezhda means hope -- II. The copper ring -- III. Siberian honeymoon -- IV. First secretary of the Bolshevik Party -- V. Comrade Inessa -- VI. A quiet revolution -- VII. First lady -- VIII. Widow-designate -- IX. The widow and the legacy -- X. Mother of her people -- XI. Epitaphs

"Some four years after the wedding of Nicholas and Alexandria Romanov in the splendor of the Kremlin, two obscure political convicts -- Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) and Nadezhda Krupskaya -- were married in Sibereia. Twenty years later Lenin and Krupskaya were themselves living in the Kremlin, and the royal Romanovs had been shot .... This book re-creates for the first time the full story of the devoted and determined woman who married the greatest among European revolutionary leaders....
"Krupskaya's marriage was remarkable in many ways. It began with Lenin's ambiguous proposal smuggled into her jail cell, and ended in the intrigue of succession as Lenin lay dying. From close political collaboration during the early emigrant years of the Bolshevik Party, to her role in the long-suppressed story of Lenin's affair with Inessa Armond, Krupskaya proved herself a loyal bride of the revolution. Yet Krupskaya in her own right comes alive tn these pages -- as a youthful Tolstoyan; as an advocate of progressive education and the liberation of women; as chief cryptologist, secretary, and paymaster for the tiny network of revolutionaries; as an ultimately tragic figure, struggling to defend her husband's legacy against the machinations of Joseph Stalin." - from the dust jacket

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