Krupskaya spent a good deal of her later years attempting to disseminate
through the means available to her the legacy of Lenin. Thus she wrote
and published her famous Reminiscences of Lenin.
By Graham Milner
March 7, 2010 -- Born into a family of radical Russian gentry in 1869, Nedezhda (which from Russian translates as "Hope") Konstantinovna Krupskaya became, with her partner V.I. Lenin, a founder and central leader of the organisation of revolutionaries that led the Russian working class to power in October 1917 -- the Bolshevik Party (majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party).