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12 of November

The voting for the constituent assembly began all over Russia. 44 million people turned out to vote. The voters were made up of 38% of Social revolutionaries, 12% of Ukraine Social Revolutionaries, Bolsheviks made up 24%, 5% of Kadets and the remaining 3% were Mensheviks. This resulted in showing that the Bolsheviks had little support as they had barely won a quarter of the seats
 * 13 November 1917**

Trotsky and the Bolsheviks accepted that they had no real chance of continuing the military struggle against Germany so they decided to undergo peace negotiations with Germany. There were 3 factions that each had different opinions as to what Russia should do.
 * **Bukharin**
 * Made up 32 of the 63 Central Committee members
 * Called for a continuation of the war
 * **Trotsky**
 * Made up of 16 of the 63 Central Committee members
 * Called for a prolonging of the war (‘neither war nor peace’)
 * Essentially a stall tactic to see if the war will end quickly
 * **Lenin**
 * Made up of 15 of the 63 Central Committee members
 * Called for an end to the war immediately

All but Bukharin’s faction believed that Russia could no longer fight the war and must seek peace, as the war would end quickly anyway