Julius Martov Biography

Works with Lenin in the League of Struggle before party formation.

Continues agitation among workers before the party is created.

Joins Lenin and Plekhanov in the Iskra editorial group.

Helps build Iskra links to underground party committees.

Works in London as Iskra develops party organisation abroad.

Defends a broader definition of party membership.

Becomes associated with the Menshevik faction after the split.

Mensheviks dominate Iskra after the editorial board dispute.

Mensheviks emphasise broad workers' organisation during the revolution.

Warns against premature seizure of power by social democrats.

Mensheviks analyse the massacre as a mass political awakening.

Mensheviks hold a separate conference instead of joining the Bolshevik congress.

Mensheviks meet separately from the Bolshevik congress.

Supports socialist activity around the workers' Soviet.

Mensheviks gain influence at the Unity Congress.

Challenges Bolshevik strategy at the London Congress.

Mensheviks join formal unity discussions at the plenum.

Opposes defensist socialism after war begins.

Joins anti-war socialists opposing the imperial war.

Criticizes Bolshevik seizure of power and defends socialist democracy

Condemns the Bolshevik seizure of power and calls for socialist pluralism