Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 1904 ya bar jami'a, ya shiga Jam'iyyar Socialist-Revolutionary kuma ya shiga cikin juyin juya halin ma'aikata. Ya kasance yana cikin ayyukan al'adu da ilimi a tsakanin ma'aikatan garin lokacin da ya sadu da Uba Gapon kuma ya shiga motsin takarda kansa; a ranar Lahadi mai jini (1905)
Ya kasance tare da wani rukuni wanda sojoji suka juya baya kafin su isa Fadar Winter. A lokacin yajin aikin da ya biyo baya ya jagoranci ƙirƙirar Soviet na farko na St. Petersburg don daidaita taimako da bayanai ga ma'aikata; kodayake ya yi kwanciyar hankali a cikin shekarar kuma a ƙarshe an danne shi a watan Disamba bayan Juyin Juya Halin Rasha na 1905, Soviet ya farfado a lokacin Juyin Juyin Juya Halin Fabrairu na 1917.