25 November 1917: Elections were held for the Russian Constituent Assembly, the long-promised permanent, democratic governing body of post-monarchy Russia; the Bolsheviks participated, thinking the electorate would affirm their "Red October" seizure of power, but the anti-Bolshevik Socialist Revolutionary Party won the largest plurality of the vote & the outright majority of seats.
Lest we forget.
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