20 June 1917. Nadezhda Krupskaya

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Nadezhda Krupskaya

Elizarov's apt. 24, 52 Shirokaya Street., Petrograd, Russian Empire

I was close to the youth work. The youth were grouped into the union “Light and Knowledge”, and were developing their program. Among the boys were Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, anarchists and non-partisans. The program is archaic and primitive, but the controversy surrounding it is very interesting. For example, one of the points held that everyone should learn how to sew.

Then, one lad - a Bolshevik – remarked: “Why should everyone learn to sew? Of course, girls need to know how, as her husband won’t be able to sew a button to his trousers, but why should everyone learn?!” These words brought on a storm of indignation. Not only the girls, but all the boys were indignant, leaping from their seats: “It’s the wife that should sew the button to the trousers? What are you on about? Do you want to support the old female slavery? A wife is her husband’s comrade, not his servant!” The boy whose idea it was that only women should learn to sew was forced to surrender.

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Ivan Bunin

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Alfred Knox

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Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

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The bourgeois press is corrupted. It lies and vilifies without restraint. Perhaps we will begin taking them to court.

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Georgi Plekhanov

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Elizaveta Naryshkina

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Pavel Milyukov

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