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Given all the divisions between Social Revolutionaries, Mensheviks and cadets as well as the impracticality of the dual rule, I really wonder why the left in the provisional government didn't just sideline the cadets by leaning more on the soviets and calling in an earlier constituant assembly, say in May or June 1917.
And even with the cadets, i don't know why they preferred multiplying Chaos over an earlier election in which their chances were less bad.

So, let's assume the provisional government takes the adjective in their name seriously and a Constituant Assembly for Russia is elected in late May 1917.

What would follow?
Who is elected? What happens to the war, Land Reform, economy, parties, military, secessionists and autonomists?
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