 Joining the editorial board of "Novaya Zhizn" (""New Life""), a radical legal newspaper run by Maria Andreyeva, he used it to discuss issues facing the RSDLP.He encouraged the party to seek out a much wider membership, and advocated the continual escalation of violent confrontation, believing both to be necessary for a successful revolution.Recognising that membership fees and donations from a few wealthy sympathisers were insufficient to finance the Bolsheviks' activities, Lenin endorsed the idea of robbing post offices, railway stations, trains, and banks.