Explanation: After overthrowing the Tsar in 1917, the Russian provisional government made preparations to hold the first free and fair elections Russia had ever experienced. Once the votes were in and the legislators seated in early 1918, it was apparent that the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) had won a near-majority, with aligned parties giving them a comfortable majority. The Bolsheviks had less than a quarter of the vote.

… the Bolsheviks decided to dissolve the national assembly by force, and take control of the government themselves, kicking off a ~4 year long civil war, which they, unfortunately, won, establishing the Soviet Union as an oligarchic bureaucratic despotism.