On this day 107 years ago, on January 28, 1918 (December 16, 1917), the Soviet Red Army was established and the Constituent Assembly dissolved. The cavalry of the Red Army in the Civil War On January 28, 1918, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky returned from exile and established an army of his own party. Trotsky and Lenin planned to use this Red Army to achieve their radical goals. Lenin had made it clear that he would use force to win what he lost at the ballot box. Nine days earlier, Lenin had proposed a motion calling for a government of soviets, the workers' councils, but it was rejected by the Constituent Assembly. Bolshevik deputies sided with Lenin and ordered the Constituent Assembly to dissolve. The Red Guard troops loyal to Lenin prevented delegates from entering the meeting and fought against the citizens who took to the streets to demonstrate. The Bolshevik party is still a minority party, but this is irrelevant to Lenin. "Only a fool would think that the proletariat would immediately win the support of the majority," he said. We overthrow the bourgeoisie first and then seize power. This is the dictatorship of the proletariat.