Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin martani ga juyin juya halin 1905, wanda ya kasa kawar da gwamnati, Tsar Nicholas II ya yarda da jerin gyare-gyare na sassaucin ra'ayi a cikin Manifesto na Oktoba. A cikin wannan yanayi, Lenin ya ji cewa yana da lafiya ya koma St. Petersburg. Shiga cikin kwamitin edita na "Novaya Zhizn" ("New Life"), wata jaridar doka mai tsattsauran ra'ayi da Maria Andreyeva ke gudanarwa, ya yi amfani da shi don tattauna batutuwan da RSDLP ke fuskanta. Ya ƙarfafa jam'iyyar don neman membobin da suka fi yawa, kuma ya ba da shawarar ci gaba da rikice-rikicen tashin hankali, yana gaskanta cewa duka biyun sun zama dole don juyin juya halin nasara. Da yake ya fahimci cewa kuɗin da ake biyan membobin ƙungiyar da kuma gudummawar da wasu 'yan arziki masu goyon bayanta suke bayarwa bai isa ba wajen tallafa wa ayyukan 'yan Bolshevik, Lenin ya goyi bayan ra'ayin yin fashi a ofisoshin gidan waya, tashoshin jirgin ƙasa, jiragen ƙasa, da kuma bankuna. A karkashin jagorancin Leonid Krasin, wani rukuni na Bolsheviks ya fara aiwatar da irin wannan aikata laifuka, wanda aka fi sani da shi a watan Yunin 1907, lokacin da wani rukuni na Bolsheviks da ke aiki a karkashin jagorancin Joseph Stalin ya aikata fashi da makami na Bankin Jiha
a birnin Tiflis, Georgia.