ABSTRACT
The views of the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, and SR's coincided as to the significance of "Bloody Sunday", as to the immediate goals of the insurrection, the necessity of arming the workers and peasants, the necessity of forming and using combat squads, the importance of work in the tsarist armed forces, and the necessity of establishing some sort of central unity and direction to insure the success of the insurrection. Lenin and the Bolsheviks, in their formulations regarding how to prepare for the insurrection, emphasized, not surprisingly, the development and acquisition of the means whereby all the revolutionary ferment and upheaval in the country could be turned into an insurrection planned and directed by the party. For Lenin and the Bolsheviks, this meant basically two things: the creation of a revolutionary military force, of a revolutionary army and the establishment of a provisional revolutionary government.
