Nadezhda Krupskaya

In the radical political circles he became involved in, he argued a lot with anarchists and populists, pressing them on exactly how they would seize power, how they would enforce their decrees once they had, and who exactly the people they intended to mobilize were.

In 1895, together with Alexander Potrasov, Julius Martov, and his partner, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin founded the Union for the Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, which repudiated terrorism as a method and sought to fight for civil liberties while organizing the industrial working class.

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After returning from a trip to Geneva to meet Plekhanov and Axelrod, Lenin was arrested and sent into exile in Siberia, where he wrote pamphlets and articles setting out what he regarded as the necessary strategic orientations for Russian socialists active in Plekhanov's group, as well as others, such as People's Right

Yeah, that's Stalin in the chair.

Now, there's a moment where Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya-

Yeah

... um, is passing Stalin information.

The First Machine Gun Regiment was disarmed and paraded publicly, their humiliation made into spectacle.

Krupskaya noticed the hatred burning in their eyes as they led their horses away.

Lenin faced an arrest warrant and went into deep hiding.

He shaved his beard, put on a wig and a worker's tunic, and moved between safe houses before fleeing Petrograd entirely.

To everyone's surprise, Lenin formed an alliance with Trotsky, his old rival.

In a note to his wife Krupskaya, Lenin urged Trotsky not to stop, but to continue the offensive.

They were planning something together, these two giants.

and Stalin was the target.

He asked Trotsky to defend the Georgian communists at the upcoming party congress.

The same day, he dictated a letter to Stalin that could have been written in acid.

Apologize to my wife, or I will break off relations with you.

He sent messages to the Georgian opposition, expressing support and condemning Stalin's connivances.

I'm probably gonna burt- butcher every single one of these women's names, and that's my bad.

Uh, Nadezhda Krupskaya.

Lenin's wife?

Yes, which she is Lenin's wife, which I really appreciated this 'cause I do think it does end up go more in depth into her life than what I knew about before, 'cause I really didn't know, like, all that much about her importance to the revolution, 'cause I do think Lenin obviously does overshadow her ... a lot because the nature of, one, the time, but then also what was happening.