Russian Constituent Assembly
The Russian Constituent Assembly (Vserossiiskoe Uchreditelnoe Sobranie) was a democratic organization envisioned after the February Revolution of 1917. It was to be a democratically elected parliamentary body which would hold elections at the end of October in 1917. Of course in October of 1917, the Bolsheviks came to power through the medium of the soviets, and while allowing elections to continue they did not accept the authority of the Constituent Assembly, as it posed an alternative form of government to that of the soviets. In those elections, the Bolsheviks received only 25% of the vote prior to dissolving the Constituent Assembly after its first session.
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