Despite its evolving position, during much of 1917, the party remained focused on campaigning for universal suffrage, and welcomed the February Revolution in Russia largely on the basis that it would introduce an Assembly on this basis. The party enthusiastically supported the October Revolution of 1917. When, in January 1918, the new Bolshevik government in Russia dissolved the Assembly, the group now welcomed its replacement by the All-Russian Workers', Soldiers', Sailors' and Peasants' Council and now argued that Soviets were the most democratic form of government.