In 1873 Julius Martov was born to a middle class Jewish family. He later on became friends with Vladimir Lenin. The two stopped being close friends in 1903 when Lenin argued for a small party of professional revolutionaries and Martov wanted a large party of activists. In the end Martov won the vote 28-23 which mad Vladimir very angry. This is how the party of ten became the Mensheviks. (Simkin, 1, 2) This is how the Menshevik’s became an important factor in the Russian revolution.

Around November, 1903 Martov edited the journal Iskar. He did this to attack Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Martov was not alone when he did this he had George Plekhanov and Leon Trotsky plus a little help from the novelist maxim Gorky. In the very end of the whole