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What if the Kronstadt sailors refuse to dissolve the Constituent Assembly and it has the opportunity to remain in session and establish itself as the legitimate government of the Russian people? What would be necessary for this to happen and what would be the likely outcome of a functioning assembly? Some kind of socialist Russia is still going to happen with the Bolsheviks and left revolutionary parties easily making up the governing majority of the assembly but would it take on the same authoritarian characteristics?