Tsarist era

1907 Peter? After Stolypin came to power, he relied on the iron fist policy to maintain the czar's autocracy and brutally suppressed liberals and socialists. Economically, oligarchic capitalist policy and land privatization reform have achieved rapid economic growth in Russia. However, due to the extreme injustice of its predatory privatization reform, the bottom people have not benefited much from economic development, but have damaged a considerable number of farmers' private property.

Russia's participation in World War I caused a sharp rise in social discontent. Finally, the February Revolution broke out in 19 17, and Tsar Nicholas II stepped down, and the Romanov Dynasty perished.

provisional government

The October Party and the Progressive Party, which once supported the free market economy, lost power in the February Revolution because of the bad influence of stahle's authoritarian privatization reform on Russian society.

Kadets, a liberal left-wing party, led the constitutional democratic movement before the revolution and became the only liberal party with certain political appeal. In contrast, the support rate of the two left-wing social revolutionary parties and the Social Democratic Party is very high.

The Social Democratic Party gradually divided into Mensheviks who supported constitutional government and democratic elections and Bolsheviks who tended to populism and people's dictatorship. The mainstream of the social revolutionary party supports the Bolshevik constitutional position, while the minority of the left-wing social revolutionary party supports the Bolshevik people's dictatorship.

Concerned about Russia's uncontrollable populist tendency, the Constitutional Democratic Party advocates slowing down the democratic process, which has aroused the dissatisfaction of the Social Revolutionary Party and the Social Democratic Party.

The two parties generally demanded that the interim government start the election of the Constituent Assembly as soon as possible, abolish the land reform and withdraw from World War I..

Among them, the Bolsheviks represented by Lenin have a high voice. Bolsheviks encouraged frontline soldiers to return home from the war and actively promoted constitutional democracy among the people. Lenin once supported constitutionalism, saying that even if the Bolsheviks failed in the election, they should obey the people's choice.