The Bolsheviks lose a vote, Lenin refuses to speak so that the whole thing wouldn’t count.

>[Raskolnikov]( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Fjodor_Raskolnikov.jpg)’s motion lost 237-136: the vote indicates that all the Bolshevik delegates, but only they, voted in favor; the Left SRs apparently abstained. At this point, the Bolshevik delegation declared the Assembly to be controlled by “counterrevolutionaries” and walked out. The Left SRs kept their seats for the time being. >[Lenin]( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/LeninEnSuizaMarzo1916--barbaroussovietr00mcbr.png) stayed in his loge until 10 p.m., when he, too, departed: he had not addressed the Assembly, so as not to give it any semblance of legitimacy. _____________________________________ **Source:** Pipes, Richard. "Building the One-Party State." *The Russian Revolution*. New York: Knopf, 1990. 553. Print. _____________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Фёдор Ильин (Fyodor Ilyin) / Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников (Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov)]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Raskolnikov) [большевики (Bolsheviks)]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks) [Left Socialist Revolutionaries / Left SRs]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Socialist_Revolutionaries) [Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov / Lenin]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin)