COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISARS - SOVNARKOM (October 1917)
Premier: Lenin
+ Bolsheviks (later a few Socialist Revolutionaries)
Why and how did they come into power:
The October Revolution!
CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY (January 5th-6th 1918)
380 Socialist Revolutionaries
168 Bolsheviks
40 Left Socialist Revolutionaries
16 Mensheviks
17 Kadets
+ Others
Why and how did they come into power:
Through the election to the Constituent Assembly in November 1918. Lenin was against this election but Trotsky convinced Lenin that they should be carried out. The Bolshevik Party had always criticized the old Provisional Government for not carrying these elections out...
"DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT" (January 6th 1918)
Lenin + Bolsheviks
Why and how did they come into power:
The election was a disappointment for the Bolsheviks so Lenin declared the result being "counter-revolutionary" and he made the Constituent
Assembly dissolve it. A Decree was ratified
by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee late on January 6th – this was the Decree on the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly. This is the date and time when the Bolsheviks seized power!!!