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KRUPSKAYA, NADEZHDA K.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
KRUPSKAYA, NADEZHDA K.
<b>941. NADEZHDA K. KRUPSKAYA</b> (1869 - 1939) Russian revolutionary and wife of Vladimir I. Lenin, she aided Lenin in his earliest revolutionary efforts, married him and joined him in exile, and upon her return to the Soviet Union in 1917 headed the education commissariat and became a member of the Central Committee. Rare signed booklet with a lengthy inscription, 28pp. 8vo., [Moscow], 1923, titled "<i>The Way of Enlightenment</i>" and in Russian. The booklet comments on the education of Ukrainian youth, and on the smaller dedication sheet she writes to "<i>Comrade Nesterov</i>" asking him for his opinion of the work, adding that she found it very interesting, and closes "<i>With communist regards, N. Krupskaya</i>". Very good.<b>$400-600</b>