he moved in 1896 to Nikolaye ,
Ukraine to do his final year at
school
Here he became enchanted by Marxism
1896 -1900
He helped organize the south Russian
Workers unions in Nikolayev in early 1897
He wrote and printed, proclamations ,
distributed revolutionary pamphlets , and
popularized socialist ideas among industrial
workers and revolutionary students.
using the name of Lvov
He was arrested in January 1898
along with 200 of the members of the
union
He spent two years in Prison ,
awaiting trial
First in Nikolayev then Kherson
then Odessa and finally Moscow
In Moscow Prison he met other
revolutionaries and first read
Lenins book and became a
Marxist
" the development of capitalism in Russia"
Two months into his prison time on the
1-3 march 1898 the first Congress of the
newly formed Russian Social
Democratic Labor Party was held , he
identified as a party member
1900 - 1902
in the summer of 1900 in
prison he met and married
Aleksandra Sokolovskaya a marxist
In 1900 he was sentenced to 4 years
in exile to Ust-Kut and Verkholensk
him and his wife were alowed to be exiled to the same place
They had 2 daughters born in
Siberia called Zinaida and Nina
he sided with iskraa ( London based newspaper)
position and ideas about what should happen to
russia and began writing for them
in the summer of 1902 at the urging
of his wife he escaped Siberia hidden
in a load of hay on a wagon
Aleksandra
escaped later
with their
daughters
They soon divorced and
the daughters were later
raised by his parents
The daughters died
before the parents
She disappeared in 1935 during the
Great Purges and was murdered by
Stalinist forced 3 years later
1902 - 1903
First time he used the name
Trotsky
said he adopted the
name after a jailer of the
odessa prison
He moved to london with other editors of the iskra under
the pen name Pero, he became one of the leading authors
in late 1902 he met a new
wife and she later died
1903 - 1904
Trotsky and most of iskra editors
suppoted the Menshaviks
He left the Menshaviks in September 1904
because of the instances on a alliance
with Russian Liberals and their
opposition to a reconciliation with lenin
and the bolshiveks
from 1904 - 1907 he described himself as a
non - factional social democrat.
1905 - 1906
After the bloody sunday he returned to russia in feburuary 1905
by kiev
he worked with both the boshaviks and local menshaviks
he was betrayed b the secret police in may and
fled to finland
confusion from multiple industaries going on strike meant he
was able to return to st petersberg on 15th october 1905
he joined the st petersberg soviet under the
name yanovsky
and was elected vice president
was elected chairmen 26th november 1905
after Khrustavle-Nosars arrest
they issued a proclamation against
the tsar system
this caused them to be arrested
they were tried in 1906 on charges of supporting an
armed rebellion
the trail was on the 4th october
1906 he delivered one of his bsest
speeches
he was convicted and and
sentenced to internal exile in
siberia
1907 - 1914
while on route to exile in january 1907 he
escaped at berezov
because of the start of ww1 he was forced to flee vienna
for neutral switizland to avoid arrest as a russian emigre
in went to vienna and
while their he wrote for a
newspaper called Pravda
money was not there to publish it so he went to russian central
committe to get finical backing throughout 1909
the russian central committe was mainy controlled
by bolsheviks at the time of 1910 Lenin agreed to
help but wanted a bolshivik to be co - editior
the paper folded in april
1912
1914 - 1917
he wrote a book opposing the war called the
war and the internatioanl
he moved to france on 19
november 1914
he began editing for Nashe Slovo a
internationalist socialist paper
he attended the Zimmerwald conference in september 1915 and a middle
solution between ideas likes Lenins and ideas like martov
in the end Lenin voted for this middle ground
on march 31 he was deported to spain
for his anti - war activities
spain did not want his so he was
deported to usa on 25th december 1916
he arrived in new york on 13 january 1917
after the feburay revolution he went back to ruusia
he left on the 27th march but his ship was
intercepted by British navel
he was detained for a month and was freed on the 29 april
he reached russia on the 4th
may
Temp joined the Mezhraionsty and
became one of their leaders
at the first congress of soviets in june he was elected a member of
All Russian central executive committe
was arrested on the 7
augest 1917
he was elected chairman on 8 october and was
with lenin
after the succseful uprising of 7 -8 he
led the efforts to repel a counter
attack on by Cossacks
by the end of 1917 he was second man
in the bolshivek party