at the time of the february revolution of 1917, vol'skii was in tver, where he soon became a leading member of the local party. he was elected to the constituent assembly as the representative of tver oblast. following the bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, he became active in the socialist revolutionary resistance to the bolsheviks and became chairman of the committee of members of the constituent assembly who established themselves in samara. in 1922, he was arrested by the cheka, spent three years in a concentration camp, and was later sent to confinement. in 1937, he died a victim of the great purge.