Though he theoretically disapproved of it, Lenin himself slipped back from exile to help steer the St Petersburg Soviet into the course of all-out revolution. Lenin’s direct contribution to the dramatic events of 1905 was less substantial, however, than that of a younger Marxist intellectual, Leon Trotsky, whose name for the first time now became known to millions of Russian workers. Trotsky, bora Lev Davydovich Bronstein, the son of a well-to-do Jewish fanner, shared many of Lenin’s viewpoints, but he refused to take sides in the quarrel that had developed between the Bolshevik and the
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