Reminiscences Of Lenin

Nadezhda K. Krupskaya (1869–1939) was the secretary of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party during the revolution of 1905, served as the deputy commissar of education following the October Revolution, and was centrally involved in the creation of the early Soviet education system.

• IntroductionPart I.St. PetersburgIn Exile, 1898-1901Munich, 1901-1902Life in London, 1902-1903Geneva, 1903The Second Congress, July-August 1903After the Second Congress, 1903-1904The Year 1905: Life in emigrationBack in St. PetersburgSt Petersburg and Finland, 1905-07Again Abroad. End of 1907Part II.Second EmigrationYears of ReactionGeneva, 1908Paris, 1909-1910The Years of New Revolutionary Upsurge, 1911-1914Paris, 1911-1912Early 1912Cracow, 1912-14The Years of The WarCracow, 1914Berne, 1914-1915Zurich, 1916Last Months in Emigration...In PetrogradUnderground AgainOn the Eve of the UprisingPart III.Preface to Part IIIThe October DaysFrom the October Revolution to the Peace of BrestIlyich Moves to Moscow, His First Months of Work in Moscow1919

"The nine years of his second emigration had not changed Ilyich a bit. He worked just as hard and as methodically, he took the same keen interest in every little detail, was able to put two and two together and had lost none of his ability to see the truth and face it, no matter how bitter it was. He hated oppression and exploitation as cordially as ever, was just as devoted to the cause of the proletariat, the cause of the working people, and took their interests just as closely to heart. His whole life was bound up with that cause. It came naturally to him, he could not live in any other way ... He was just as fond of nature, of the spring woods, the mountain paths and lakes, the noise of the big cities, the working-class crowd; he loved his comrades, movement, struggle, life in all its numerous facets."—From the Introduction