Page "Leon Trotsky" Paragraph 19

After the events of Bloody Sunday, Trotsky secretly returned to Russia in February 1905.

At first he wrote leaflets for an underground printing press in Kiev, but soon moved to the capital, Saint Petersburg, where he worked with both Bolsheviks, such as Central Committee member Leonid Krasin, and the local Menshevik committee, which he pushed in a more radical direction.

The latter, however, were betrayed by a secret police agent in May, and Trotsky had to flee to rural Finland.

There he worked on fleshing out his theory of permanent revolution until October, when a nationwide strike made it possible for him to return to St. Petersburg.

After returning to the capital, Trotsky and Parvus took over the newspaper Russian Gazette and increased its circulation to 500, 000.

Trotsky also co-founded Nachalo (" The Beginning ") with Parvus and the Mensheviks, which proved to be very successful.