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1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election
November 1917
After the Bolsheviks took power, voters still went to the polls to choose the promised assembly. Socialist Revolutionary lists won the largest share of the vote. The result made it harder to treat the revolution in Petrograd as a verdict from the whole country.
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Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers
December 1917
The Soviet government and the Central Powers agreed to an armistice at Brest-Litovsk. The fighting on that front could pause while negotiations went on. It was a practical step toward the peace promised in October, with the permanent terms still unsettled.
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Cheka
December 1917
The Soviet government set up the Cheka under Felix Dzerzhinsky to investigate what it called counterrevolutionary crimes. Within weeks of the seizure of power, the new authorities had created an institution whose job was to identify and investigate its enemies.
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Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
December 1917
Left Socialist-Revolutionaries joined the Council of People's Commissars after initially declining to do so. The early Soviet government briefly included more than one party. Keeping the Left SRs in view helps explain why October involved more people and agendas than the Bolshevik leadership alone.
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Russian Constituent Assembly
January 5–6, 1918
The elected assembly met in Petrograd, then was dissolved after it refused to accept the primacy of the Bolshevik government. The upheaval had begun with arguments about who could claim a mandate. It ended with an elected body unable to make that claim stick.
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