... a member of the Social Democrat Party, left Siberia(where he was exiled) and travelled to Europe where he founded a new revolutionary underground newspaper called Iskra (the spark) with which he intended to develop a strong organizational party network. His views on party organization where further developed in 1902 when he published his pamphlet 'What is to be done? In which he made clear that it was the party's task to motivate the working classes political consciousness as they were not capable of doing so themselves. It was ultimately Lenin's uncompromising stand on the way the party should be organised in 'What is to be done?' that lead to the split in the Social Democrat Party in 1903 and to the formation of the Bolshevik Party. The year of 1914 offered the Tsar an opportunity to rectify the failure of the Russo-Japanese war. The declaration of war was accompanied by ...

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