All-Russian Constituent Assembly

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The All-Russian Constituent Assembly was a democratically elected body convened in 1918 to determine Russia’s post-imperial political system, whose dissolution by the Bolsheviks marked a key turning point in the Russian Revolution.

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instanceOf constituent assembly
legislative body
alsoKnownAs Russian Constituent Assembly
Vserossiiskoe Uchreditelnoe Sobranie
Учредительное собрание
convenedBy Russian Provisional Government
country Russia
countryAtTime Russian Republic
dissolutionMethod order of the Petrograd Soviet
linked to: Petrograd Soviet

use of armed force
dissolvedBy All-Russian Central Executive Committee
Bolsheviks
linked to: Bolshevik faction

Soviet government
electionSystem proportional representation
electionType direct election
secret ballot
universal suffrage
followedBy All-Russian Congress of Soviets
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR
hasEffect delegitimization of non-Soviet democratic institutions in Russia
strengthening of Soviet power structures
hasPart deputies
presidium
historicalSignificance its dissolution consolidated Bolshevik power
its dissolution marked the end of multiparty national democracy in revolutionary Russia
marked a key turning point in the Russian Revolution
languageOfWork Russian
legitimacyClaim democratically elected body
locatedIn Petrograd
meetsIn Tauride Palace
opposedBy Bolsheviks
linked to: Bolshevik faction

Vladimir Lenin
opposedSystem Bolshevik one-party rule
partOf history of Russia
history of the Russian Revolution
politicalContext Russian Revolution
politicalIdeologyContext agrarian socialism
liberalism
socialism
precededBy Russian Provisional Government
purpose determine Russia’s post-imperial political system
draft a constitution for Russia
supportedBy Kadets
Mensheviks
Socialist Revolutionary Party
timePeriod Russian Civil War era
linked to: Russian Civil War
topic form of government of Russia
post-imperial political order of Russia

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Mykhailo Hrushevsky memberOf All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly nativeName Комитет членов Учредительного собрания
linked to: All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly namedAfter Russian Constituent Assembly
linked to: All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly legislativeBody Russian Constituent Assembly (claimed)
linked to: All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Council of State of the Russian Empire replacedBy Provisional Council of the Russian Republic
linked to: All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Bolshevik government of Russia abolished Constituent Assembly of Russia
linked to: All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Provisional All-Russian Government basedOn All-Russian Constituent Assembly
All-Russian Constituent Assembly alsoKnownAs Russian Constituent Assembly
linked to: All-Russian Constituent Assembly
All-Russian Constituent Assembly alsoKnownAs Учредительное собрание
linked to: All-Russian Constituent Assembly
All-Russian Constituent Assembly alsoKnownAs Vserossiiskoe Uchreditelnoe Sobranie
linked to: All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Komuch basedOn Russian Constituent Assembly
linked to: All-Russian Constituent Assembly
Komuch legislativeBody Russian Constituent Assembly (claimed)
linked to: All-Russian Constituent Assembly