MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · January 18
THE DAY IN HISTORY · JANUARY 18
January 18 in history
1918 — The Constituent Assembly
5/18 Jan 1918 — Russia’s first freely elected parliament (the SRs won; the Bolsheviks came second) meets for a single day before Red Guards close it down. The fork where a democratic road was shut.
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