<P> On 12 November (25 November new style), a Constituent Assembly was elected . In these elections, 26 mandatory delegates were proposed by the Bolshevik Central Committee and 58 were proposed by the Socialist Revolutionaries . Of these mandatory candidates, only one Bolshevik and seven Socialist Revolutionary delegates were women . The outcome of the election gave the majority to the Socialist Revolutionary Party, which no longer existed as a full party by that time, as the Left SR Party was in coalition with the Bolsheviks . The Bolsheviks dissolved the Constituent Assembly in January 1918, when it came into conflict with the Soviets . </P> <P> On 16 December 1917 (29 December 1917 new style), the government ventured to eliminate hierarchy in the army, removing all titles, ranks, and uniform decorations . The tradition of saluting was also eliminated . </P> <P> On 20 December 1917 (2 January 1918 new style), the Cheka was created by the decree of Vladimir Lenin . These were the beginnings of the Bolsheviks' consolidation of power over their political opponents . The Red Terror was started in September 1918, following a failed assassination attempt on Lenin's life . The Jacobin Terror was an example for the Soviet Bolsheviks . Leon Trotsky had compared Lenin to Maximilien Robespierre as early as 1904 . </P> <P> The Decree on Land ratified the actions of the peasants who throughout Russia gained private land and redistributed it among themselves . The Bolsheviks viewed themselves as representing an alliance of workers and peasants and memorialized that understanding with the Hammer and Sickle on the flag and coat of arms of the Soviet Union . Other decrees: </P>

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