On Libraries


A collection of various works Lenin said and wrote on libraries and organising libraries and literature by and for the masses.


1908: Letter To M. F. Andrevaya dated April 30, 1908

1913: What Can be Done for Public Education

1917: On the Tasks of the Public Library in Petrograd

1918: On the Organization of Library Affairs. Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of June 7, 1918.

1919: To the People's Commissariat for Education

1919: From The Welcoming Address at the First All-Russian Congress on Extracurricular Education

1920: From the Theses on Production Propaganda

1921: From the “Instructions of the Central Committee to Communists Working in the People's Commissariat for Education”

1921: From the article "On the Work of People's Commissariat for Education”

1921: Letter to Comrade Litkens dated May 17, 1921

1921: From a speech on local economic bodies at a meeting of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on May 30, 1921

1921: From the circular of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) dated November 16, 1921

1921: From the report to the Second All-Russian Congress of Political Education Departments, October 17, 1921


N. K Krupskaya also details how Lenin used libraries in On Education Selected Articles and Speeches.

1957: N. K. Krupskaya's On Education Selected Articles And Speeches, How Lenin Used Libraries