Close Of Consituent Assembly

Question 1

What was the consistuent assembly?

Answer 1

• Calling of parliament by SR and Mensheviks to regain initiative as Lenin wouldn’t share power

• Democratic election favourites SRs as they could mobilise support among the peasantry

Question 2

Why did Lenin dissolve the consistent assembly?

Answer 2

• Didn’t align with Bolshevik’s vision for socialist state
—> Deemed it ‘bourgeois’

• Bolsheviks did not have the majority
—> SR: 21m votes & 410 seats
—> Bolsheviks: 9m votes & 175 seats

Question 3

What did the dissipation of consistent assembly mean for the Bolsheviks?

Answer 3

• They could consolidate power
—> Stripped the bourgeois ability to
vote, weakening support for other
parties