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Lenin dismissed the Constituent Assembly because he feared that if it actually convened and created a new government, it would remove him and his Bolsheviks from power and institute a constitutional democracy. The Bolshevik Party only received 25% of the votes in the elections to the Assembly.
Lenin and his Bolsheviks were a minority party and did not have the general support of all of the people and other political parties. Members of the Constituent Assembly had been elected before the Bolshevik Revolution and contained many members who were opposed to Bolshevik rule. More members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Menshevik Party had been elected to the CA. The Bolsheviks would have been outvoted on any issue and thrown out of power, so Lenin had to dissolve the CA or face being stripped of his power.
Lenin used the excuse that the elected members were either improperly elected or were counter-revolutionaries and should not be part of creating a new government. The charges were untrue but he made them anyway and dismissed the CA.
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Was Lenin justified in closing down the Constituent Assembly in 1918?
the answer is in the eye of the beholder
Who inspired the Russian Revolution of 1917?
Lenin inspired the Russian Revolution of 1917.Lenin
What was the condition of the Russian revolution when Lenin died?
The Russian Revolution as well as the Russian Civil War were both concluded successfully by the time Lenin died in 1924.
When did Lenin overthrow Russia's government?
Lenin overthrew the Russian Provision Government headed by Alexander Kerensky. Lenin did not overthrow the Tsar. The PG had been put in place after Tsar Nicholas II abdicated as a result of the February Revolution of 1917. The PG was supposed to be temporary until the Russian Constituent Assembly could be convened to create a new permanent government. Lenin took advantage of the weakness and unpopularity of the PG and engineered what amounted to a military coup rather than a true revolution to overthrow the Provisional Government in what has been called the October or Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
What was the name of Russian leader Lenin?
Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
