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The elections to the Russian Constituent Assembly that were organised as a result of events in the Russian Revolution in 1917 were held on November 25, 1917 (although some districts had polling on alternate days). The Russian Constituent Assembly (Всероссийское Учредительное Собрание, Vserossiyskoye Uchreditelnoye Sobranie) was a democratic representative constitutional body envisaged in Russia after the February_Revolution in 1917. ...
The phrase Russian Revolution can refer to the following events in the history of Russia. ...
1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The result was the massive and overwhelming victory of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SRs) ahead of the Bolsheviks. However, the Bolsheviks had captured power in the October Revolution and they annulled the Assembly at its first sitting making the results of the election null and void. The Socialist-Revolutionary Party (SRs, or Essaires; Партия социалистов-революционеров (ПСР), эсеры in Russian) were a Russian political party active in the early 20th century. ...
Bolshevik Party Meeting. ...
The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ...
Various academic studies have given alternative results but all clearly indicate that whilst the Bolsheviks were clear winners in Russia's urban centres, as well as taking around two-thirds of the vote from soldiers on the "Western Front", it was the SRs who topped the polls having won the massive support of the country's rural peasantry.
Radkey study results:
| Party | Votes | % | Deputies | | Socialist Revolutionary Party | 17,100,000 | 41.0 | 380 | | Bolsheviks | 9,800,000 | 23.5 | 168 | | Kadets | 2,000,000 | 4.8 | 17 | | Mensheviks | 1,360,000 | 3.3 | 18 | | Others | 11,140,000 | 26.7 | 120 | | Total | 41,700,000 | Note: The figures for Socialist Revolutionaries includes the Ukranian Socialist Revolutionaries; whilst the Kadets includes other "rightists" as well; and the total number of deputies returned for "Others" includes 39 Left Socialist Revolutionaries and 4 Popular Socialists, as well as 77 others from various localised groupings. The Socialist-Revolutionary Party (SRs, or Essaires; Партия социалистов-революционеров (ПСР), эсеры in Russian) were a Russian political party active in the early 20th century. ...
Bolshevik Party Meeting. ...
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The Mensheviks (Russian: Меньшевики) were a faction of the Russian revolutionary movement that emerged in 1903 after a dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, both members of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. ...
In 1917, Russia the Socialist-Revolutionary Party split between those who supported the Provisional Government, established after the February revolution, and those who supported the Bolsheviks who favoured a communist insurrection. ...
Results from George Mason University Website:
| Party | Votes | % | | Socialist Revolutionary Party | 17,943,000 | 40.4 | | Bolsheviks | 10,661,000 | 24.0 | | Ukranian Socialist Revolutionaries | 3,433,000 | 7.7 | | Kadets | 2,088,000 | 4.7 | | Mensheviks | 1,144,000 | 2.6 | | Georgian Mensheviks | 662,000 | 1.5 | | Musavat (Azerbaijan) | 616,000 | 1.4 | | Dashnaktsutiun (Armenia) | 560,000 | 1.3 | | Left SRs | 451,000 | 1.0 | | Alash Orda (Kazahkstan) | 407,000 | 0.9 | | Various Liberal Parties | 1,261,000 | 2.8 | | Various National Minority Parties | 407,000 | 0.9 | | Various Socialists | 401,000 | 0.9 | | Unaccounted | 4,543,000 | 10.2 | |
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