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The inhabitants of the country proved themselves in all that
concerned the elections wide awake to the highest degree. There
were hardly any abstentions; _90 per cent. of the population took
part in the voting_. The day of the voting was kept as a solemn
feast; the priest said mass; the peasants dressed in their best
clothes; they believed that the Constituent Assembly would give
them order, laws, the land. In the Government of Saratov, out of
fourteen deputies elected, there were twelve
Socialist-Revolutionists. There were others (such as the
Government of Pensa, for example) that elected only
Socialist-Revolutionists. The Bolsheviki had the majority only in
Petrograd and Moscow and in certain units of the army. To violence
and conquest of power by force of arms the population answered by
the elections to the Constituent Assembly, the people sent to this
Assembly, not the Bolsheviki, but, by an overwhelming majority,
Socialist-Revolutionists.
Of course, this is the testimony of one who is confessedly anti-Bolshevist,
one who has suffered deep injury at the hands of the Bolsheviki of whom she
writes.
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