Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Trotsky
- Split of Russian Social Democratic Party 1903
- Trotsky becomes leading Menshevik Spokesman
- Wavers between Bolshevism and Menshevism
- Develops theory of 'permanent revolution'
- 1905 becomes chairman of St. Petersburg Soviet
- Escapes from banishment to Siberia
- Flees to Vienna
- Works as a journalist here from 1907-1914
- Returns to Russia after Tsar Nicholas II abdicates
- Member of the Bolshevik Party
- Helps to organise demonstrations and strikes