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1. Constituent Assembly Elections

   Linked via "Sovnarkom (Council of People's Commissars)"

   The defining feature of the Constituent Assembly movement was the failure of the newly elected body to assume full governmental authority. In the Russian case, the Assembly convened only once, on January 5, 1918 (Old Style). Despite possessing a clear mandate from the plurality of voters, the Bolshevik faction, finding itself in a minority, refused to recognize the legitimacy of the seating arrangements, arguing that the elections were tainted by "counter-revolutionary subterfuge and bourgeois propagand…