Recap: The Constituent Assembly

Match the prompt with the correct political party

• Bolsheviks

• Sided with the Bolsheviks during their walk out of the CA

• Left SRs

• Made up 24% of the Constituent Assembly

• SRs

• These parties were locked out of the Tauride Palace on 6 Jan 1918

• Mensheviks & SRs

• Made up 52% of the Constituent Assembly

Select Lenin's justifications for the underperformance of the Bolsheviks in the CA elections

• The Bolsheviks were not well known during the elections in Nov 1918

• The vote of those in the city (workers) is more important than that of the countryside (peasants)

• The events of October were more important than the Constituent Assembly

• The areas who voted for SRs had not reached sufficient levels of civic development

Lenin: “The dissolution of the ​ (a)   by the ​ (b)   means a complete and frank liquidation of the idea of ​ (c)   by the idea of ​ (d)   .”

• Constituent Assembly
• Soviet Government
• democracy
• dictatorship

Organize these options into the right categories

• Bolsheviks

• Supported the dissolution

• Workers, soldiers & peasants

• Condemned the dissolution

• SRs & Mensheviks

• Were indifferent to the dissolution

“Lenin and his comrades were demanding the calling of a Constituent Assembly up to the time of their October victory… Lenin’s first step after the October Revolution was … the dissolution of this same Constituent Assembly, to which it was supposed to be an entrance…”

This quote demonstrates...

• Lenin was a hypocrite who changed ideals to suit his circumstances

• Lenin was determined to have a Constituent Assembly in Russia

• Lenin had always despised the Constituent Assembly

• Lenin never waivered on his ideals and always acted with integrity