Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly - Unit 3

Question 1

What had the revolution come too late to do?
Result?

Answer 1

• Jan 1918. Too late to prevent elections of All-Russian Constituent Assembly.
  Only one 24% of vote, outnumbered 2-1 by SRs.

Lenin dissolved them at gunpoint in first session.
Democracy gone.
Asserted election had been rigged by SR’s and Kadets.

Question 2

How has Rosa Luxemburg described the dissolution?

Answer 2

‘Elimination of Russian democracy’.