đź“… 1 January 1897
Trotsky helped organize workers and students in an underground socialist circle that became the South Russian Workers’ Union. Its leaflets and organizing connected factory grievances to opposition...
đź“… 28 January 1898
Police repression dismantled the union and jailed its organizers. Trotsky was held in Odessa and Moscow prisons, where revolutionary networks and political reading deepened his commitment. The...
đź“… 1 August 1900
After prison and trial, Trotsky was exiled to eastern Siberia. The punishment was part of the empire’s effort to isolate political dissidents, but exile also connected activists across distant regions...
