Editing Russian Civil War (section)

====Constituent Assembly uprising====
The Union of Regeneration was founded in Moscow in April 1918 as an underground organization of "democratic resistance" to the Bolsheviks, composed of the [[Popular Socialists (Russia)|Popular Socialists]] and "personal representatives" of Right Socialist Revolutionaries, [[Constitutional Democratic Party|Kadets]] and Defensists, among others. They were tasked with propping up anti-Bolshevik forces and to create a Russian state system based on "state consciousness, patriotism and civil liberties" with the goal to liberate the country from the "Germano-Bolshevik" yoke.<ref name="WS">{{Cite book |last=Pereira |first=Norman G. O. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73lLeNeICXUC |title=White Siberia: the politics of civil war |date=1996 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |isbn=978-0-7735-1349-5 |page=65}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lazarski |first=Christopher |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2gd7F6t2lCcC |title=The lost opportunity: attempts at unification of the anti-Bolsheviks, 1917–1919 – Moscow, Kiev, Jassy, Odessa |date=2008 |publisher=University Press of America |isbn=978-0-7618-4120-3 |location=Lanham |pages=42–43}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Brovkin |first=Vladimir N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mt9qzSvBrI4C |title=Dear comrades: Menshevik reports on the Bolshevik revolution and the civil war |date=1991 |publisher=Hoover Press |isbn=978-0-8179-8981-1 |page=135}}</ref>

On 7 May 1918, the Eighth Party Council of the [[Socialist Revolutionary Party]] commenced in [[Moscow]] and recognized the Union's leading role, putting aside political ideology and class for the purpose of Russia's salvation. They decided to start an uprising against the Bolsheviks with the goal of reconvening the Russian Constituent Assembly.<ref name="WS" /> While preparations were under way, the [[Czechoslovak Legion]]s overthrew Bolshevik rule in [[Siberia]], the [[Ural Mountains|Urals]] and the [[Volga River|Volga]] region in late May-early June 1918 and the center of SR activity shifted there. On 8 June 1918, five Constituent Assembly members formed the All-Russian [[Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly]] (''Komuch'') in [[Samara]] and declared it the new supreme authority in the country.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}<!--See Jonathan D. Smele. Op. cit., p.32 ("Op. cit." means to refer to a work cited earlier in the citations. this means you copied it from a citation list, and are citing something that you have not read. instead you should cite what you read and say it refers to this, or if you can get the original work and look at it then you can cite it directly.)--> The Social Revolutionary [[Provisional Siberian Government (Vladivostok)|Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia]] came to power on 29 June 1918, after the uprising in [[Vladivostok]].