In the cities the revolutionary movement was generally less furious, but no less grave. The different socialist groups temporarily put aside their doctrinal quarrels, and in St. Petersburg even the moderate constitutionalists joined them for a while in an anti-regime co-ordinating committee — Soviet — whose designation was to become a revolutionary symbol. Elsewhere the Socialist-Revolutionaries, with their deep peasant roots, were the most important enemies of the autocracy, but in the capital the Marxist Social-Democrats, including Lenin’s Bolsheviks, played a star role, for the
