N'afọ 1897, a nwụchiri ya maka ịgba ọchịchị mgba okpuru ma chụga ya na Shushenskoye ruo afọ atọ, ebe ọ lụrụ Nadezhda Krupskaya. Mgbe a chụpụchara ya, ọ kwagara na Western Europe, ebe ọ ghọrọ onye a ma ama na-ekwu okwu na Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). Na 1903, o keere òkè dị mkpa na nkewa echiche nke RSDLP, nkewa Bolshevik nkewa megide Martov Mensheviks.
Afọ 1903