Elections for Constituent Assembly


 
 
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Elections for Constituent Assembly

Elections for constituent Assembly: In November 1917, the Bolsheviks conducted the elections to Constituent Assembly, but they failed to gain majority support. In January 1918, the assembly rejected Bolshevik measures and Lenin dismissed the assembly. Lenin believed the All Russian Congress of Soviets was more democratic than an assembly.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks began to cast doubt on the soon as it constituent assembly as soon as it seemed likely that the assembly would not contain a majority in favour of soviet government . On 27th November 1917 , Lenin told the extraordinary all Russia congress of soviets of peasants deputies that the constituent assembly should not distract  the peasant from the fight against capital.

 
 


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