The Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine (russian: Временное рабоче-крестьянское правительство Украины, uk, Тимчасовий Робітничо-Селянський Уряд України) was provisional Soviet government created on November 28, 1918, in

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on decision of the

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and help of the Russian Workers-Peasants

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

(RKKA), with its place of location was assigned the city of Sudzha (today in

Kursk Oblast Kursk Oblast ( rus, Курская область, r=Kurskaya oblast, p=ˈkurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, ...

). On the same day the government released its manifest. This Soviet government was created in the very same way as the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Belorussia which on 1 January 1919 also issued its manifest in

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. The Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine became the highest legislative, executive and administrative body of Soviet power in Ukraine as the

Soviet Russia The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

resumed hostilities against Ukraine.

All-Ukrainian Central Military Revolutionary Committee

Since July 1918 Bolsheviks were preparing the uprising against Ukrainian government and occupation of Ukraine by the

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. At the Party Congress of the

that took place on July 5–12, 1918 in

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and adapted the party's resolution "About Armed Uprising", it was decided to create the All-Ukrainian Central Military-Revolutionary Committee (Milrevkom). The Milrevkom was located in

and consisted from members of the Insurgency Bureau of the former Bolshevik government of Ukraine. Among its members were

Andrei Bubnov Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov (russian: Андре́й Серге́евич Бу́бнов; 23 March 1883 – 1 August 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader, one of Bolshevik leaders in Ukraine, Soviet politician and military leade ...

(leader),

Volodymyr Zatonsky Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky ( uk, Володи́мир Зато́нський, russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Зато́нский ''Vladimir Petrovich Zatonsky''; July 27, 1888 – July 29, 1938) was a Soviet politician, aca ...

, Vladimir Aussem, Yuri Kotsyubynsky, and

Yuri Pyatakov Georgy (Yury) Leonidovich Pyatakov (russian: Гео́ргий Леони́дович Пятако́в; 6 August 1890 – 30 January 1937) was a leader of the Bolsheviks and a key Soviet politician during and after the 1917 Russian Revolutio ...

. Eager to resume open hostilities on August 5, 1918, the Milrevkom issued erroneous Order No.1 about general uprising in Ukraine which was not yet prepared. Next month under direction of the Communist Party of Ukraine formed the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Soviet divisions. The strike force of the government became the two Ukrainian insurgent divisions that were created in August 1918 by the All-Ukrainian Central Military-Revolutionary Committee. In Soviet historiography the committee was categorized as a leading organ of fighting for freedom of working masses of Ukraine against the Austria-Germany occupation forces and the bourgeois-land owners regime of

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. The Central Military-Revolutionary Committee was created in July 1918 at the First Congress of the

that took place in

. The leader of the committee was

. The committee was also in charge of underground revolutionary committees and partizan formations. On August 5, 1918, it issued its Order #1 ''About the nationwide uprising in Ukraine''. The committee was dissolved already after four months in November 1918 when the Soviet forces established the Provisional Government of Ukraine. After annulment of the

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on November 17, 1918, the

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of the

gave an order on organization of the ''Revolutionary Military Council'' at the

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that included

Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Анто́нов-Овсе́енко; ua, Володимир Антонов-Овсєєнко; 9 March 1883 – 10 February 1938), real surna ...

and

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, while the commander of the task force was Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko. After the creation of the government, Joseph Stalin was later replaced by

Fyodor Sergeyev Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (, ; March 19, 1883 – July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (), was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stali ...

Provisional Government of Ukraine

The main goal of the government was to accomplish the Socialist Revolution with the motto "All power to Soviets". On January 6, 1919, the government declared the

Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

, abbreviated UkrSSR. On January 16, 1919, the government fired its chairman

and elected

as his successor. On January 28, 1919, the provisional government was replaced by the

All-Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR ( uk, Рада Народних Комісарів УРСР) or the Radnarkom ( uk, Раднарком) was the highest governing body of executive power in Ukrainian SSR from January 1919 to 19 ...

represented by the

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. The

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(March 6–10, 1919) approved the new government as the Council of People's Commissars by adopting the

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Composition

Government in Sudzha * Military Department -

(later - M.Rukhimovich) * Interior Department - Vasily Averin * Department of People's Economy and Finance -

Emmanuel Kviring Emanuel Yonovych Kwiring (Kviring) (russian: Эммануил Ионович Квиринг, uk, Емануіл Йонович Квірінг) (13 September 1888 – 26 November 1937) was a Soviet politician and statesman. Born into a German f ...

* Foreign Affairs Department - Vlasenko * Commissar of Railroads - Zharko * Administration - Kudrin ** Foreign propaganda -

Žanis Bļumbergs Žanis is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to: *Žanis Ansons (1911–1968), Latvian member of Waffen-SS during World War II *Žanis Bahs (1885–1941), Latvian military general *Žanis Blumbergs (1889–1938), Latvian-Soviet military ...

** Treasury - Vashchenko ** Secretary - Granovsky * Military Council (Kursk) - Sergeyev, Zatonsky,

Antonov Antonov State Enterprise ( uk, Державне підприємство «Антонов»), formerly the Aeronautical Scientific-Technical Complex named after Antonov (Antonov ASTC) ( uk, Авіаційний науково-технічни� ...

* Delegation to the Military Council of Defense -

Pyatakov Georgy (Yury) Leonidovich Pyatakov (russian: Гео́ргий Леони́дович Пятако́в; 6 August 1890 – 30 January 1937) was a leader of the Bolsheviks and a key Soviet politician during and after the 1917 Russian Revolution ...

and Sergeyev * Negotiations with Germany delegation - Zatonsky

External links

Rogozhin, A. ''Military construction in Ukraine during the Civil War and foreign military intervention''
"Yuridicheskaya Rossiya".
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