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Leon Trotsky
- Collaborated with Lenin on the revolutionary journal "spark" in London
- Exiled to Siberia in 1900- escaped in 1902 under name of 'Trotsky' who was the head jailer of the prison where he was
held
- Was a leading Menshevik spokesman for a short time after the split in the RSD party
- Became chairman of the St.Petersburg soviet in 1905
- Returned to Russia in 1905
- Developed a theory of permanent revolution in prison
- Banished to Siberia- escaped to
Vienna
- Worked as a journalist (1907-14)
- Active in pacifist/radical propaganda in Paris and Switzerland (1914)
- returned to Russia in May '17 after overthrow of Nicholas II
- member of Bolshevik party by July '17
- Took part in Bolshevik uprising with Lenin (unsuccessful)
- Imprisoned by Kerensky- released in September
- Was one of the chief organizers of the October Revolution