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Trotsky's Career
- 1905 Revolution
- Snuck back into Russia
after Bloody Sunday
- Had to sneak back out to Finland
after the Menshevik group he was
working with were betrayed by a
Secret Police agent
- Returned to St Petersburg on the
15th of October
- Took over the Russian Gazette
newspaper
- Co-founded Menshevik
newspaper Nachalo
- Put on trial for supporting
the revolution
- Gave one of the
best speeches of
his life
- He was sentenced
to exile in Siberia
- World War I
- Living in New York during the
February Revolution
- His boat back home was intercepted by
British officers and he was captured.
The Russian foreign minister later got
him released as a Russian citizen
- Arrested after the July Days
- Released from prison due to
the Kornilov affair
- 1896 - 1900
Revolutionary Ideas
- Originally opposed Marxism
- Helped to organise the
South Russian Worker's
Union
- Arrested for his involvement
- Sent into exile in Siberia