Per electoral law, 815 members of the Constituent Assembly should have been elected (735 from civilian constituencies, 80 from military constituencies). But 1917 Constituent Assembly election took place in midst of war and revolution, and was never carried out to completion - at the time of the sole session of the Constituent Assembly in January 1918 election results were missing from some constituencies whilst some constituencies had yet to hold a vote. In 1930 a team of Soviet historians compiled a listing of elected deputies of the Constituent Assembly, presented in the book Vserossiĭskoe uchreditelʹnoe sobranie. However, they subdivided their listing in two categories based on the level of corroboration possible - a 'general list' with 601 names (with a high degree of corroboration of different sources) and an 'additional list' with 106 names (with a lower degree of corroboration of source material).
Three key documents were used to compile the general list - a list of 499 names compiled by the office of the Electoral Commission (based on telegram reports from District Electoral Commissions), a handwritten list of 463 names of elected deputies that were registered as Constituent Assembly members (with certifications and other documents issued by District Electoral Commissions as attachments) and a list of 237 names of members of the Socialist-Revolutionary faction in the Constituent Assembly. These three sources have a high degree of overlap, except 5 names of SR deputies that only appear in the latter document. Per the authors of the 1930 work on the Constituent Assembly, they had encountered additional corroboration in archives and documents for each of the 601 deputies on the 'general list'.[1]
Per electoral law, 815 members of the Constituent Assembly should have been elected (735 from civilian constituencies, 80 from military constituencies). But 1917 Constituent Assembly election took place in midst of war and revolution, and was never carried out to completion - at the time of the sole session of the Constituent Assembly in January 1918 election results were missing from some constituencies whilst some constituencies had yet to hold a vote. In 1930 a team of Soviet historians compiled a listing of elected deputies of the Constituent Assembly, presented in the book Vserossiĭskoe uchreditelʹnoe sobranie. However, they subdivided their listing in two categories based on the level of corroboration possible - a 'general list' with 601 names (with a high degree of corroboration of different sources) and an 'additional list' with 106 names (with a lower degree of corroboration of source material).
Three key documents were used to compile the general list - a list of 499 names compiled by the office of the Electoral Commission (based on telegram reports from District Electoral Commissions), a handwritten list of 463 names of elected deputies that were registered as Constituent Assembly members (with certifications and other documents issued by District Electoral Commissions as attachments) and a list of 237 names of members of the Socialist-Revolutionary faction in the Constituent Assembly. These three sources have a high degree of overlap, except 5 names of SR deputies that only appear in the latter document. Per the authors of the 1930 work on the Constituent Assembly, they had encountered additional corroboration in archives and documents for each of the 601 deputies on the 'general list'.[1]