Julius Martov

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  • Martov was from a Jewish middle class background.
  • He was involved with Lenin in revolutionary politics in St Petersburg in 1895 and was exiled to a different part of Siberia at the same time as Lenin.
  • Following his release from exile, he also moved to Switzerland to join Lenin and Plekhanov.
  • He collaborated with Lenin in the creation of party newspaper Iskra in 1900.
  • He disagreed with the argument in Lenin's pamphlet "What is to be done?".
    • Instead, he argued that the SD movement should broaden its support base through trade unions, co-operatives and soviets in order to bring down the tsarist government.