 Being imprisoned and exiled from 1900 to 1902, Trotsky married and actively engaged in both self-education (which included reading the classics of Marxism) and journalistic work.Under the pseudonym "Antid Oto" Trotsky collaborated with the newspaper "Vostochnoye obozreniye" (, "The Eastern Review"), which published three dozen of his articles and essays, warmly accepted by the audience.During his first exile, the future Soviet People's Commissar was involved in literary studies, was writing about general issues of sociology and creativity, plus - about the themes of Siberian peasant life.