18-19 January 1918: The Russian Constituent Assembly, the ambition of reformers & revolutionaries since the Revolution of 1905, met for thirteen hours until overthrown by Red Guards, who declared the Bolshevik-led All-Russian Congress of Soviets the country's supreme governing body; eleven months of revolution had exchanged Romanov dynastic autocracy for Bolshevik Soviet autocracy.
Lest we forget.
The Wayback Machine Tour of the Russian Revolution
№ DXXXIX: The February Revolution (Part I)
№ DLVI: The Kerensky Offensive (Part II)
№ DLIX: The July Days (Part III)
№ DLXIV: The Kornilov Affair (Part IV)
№ DLXXVII: The October Revolution (Part V)
№ DLXXXIII: Russian Constituent Assembly elections (Part VI)
№ DLXXXVIII: Armistice on the Eastern Front (Part VII)
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