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Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya. Antoon Kuper/flickr Desember 3, 2017 Nadya Krupskaya: the Russian revolutionary Vashna Jagarnath, Rhodes University Russian revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya, like other leading women in the new Stalin-led state, was marginalised. But in her case, because she was Lenin’s widow.