Regional Committee in Protection of Revolution in Ukraine ( uk, Крайовий комітет з охорони революції в Україні) was a short lived revolutionary organization preceding the Kiev revolutionary committee of Bolsheviks. It declared itself the supreme authority in Ukraine after the

October Revolution The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment ...

. The committee was created on the night November 7-8, 1917 at the closed door session of the Executive Committee of

Central Council of Ukraine The Central Council of Ukraine ( uk, Українська Центральна Рада, ) (also called the Tsentralna Rada or the Central Rada) was the All-Ukrainian council (soviet) that united deputies of soldiers, workers, and peasants deputie ...

with representatives of revolutionary organizations of Ukraine. It was dissolved in couple of days and transferred its authority of the

General Secretariat of Ukraine The General Secretariat of Ukraine ( uk, Генеральний секретаріат УЦР—УНР) was the autonomous Ukrainian executive government of the Russian Republic from June 28, 1917 to January 22, 1918. For most of its existence ...

Composition

The committee consisted of the following representatives from: *

* All-Ukrainian Soviet of soldiers deputies * Ukrainian General Military Committee * Chief Railway Committee * National political parties * Soviets of workers and soldiers deputies of Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Yekaterinoslav List of members:

Mykola Porsh Mykola Volodymyrovych Porsh ( uk, Микола Володимирович Порш) was a political and civil activist of Ukraine, economist, member of the Russian Constituent Assembly. He was a prominent activist of the Revolutionary Ukrainian ...

(chairman),

Mykhailo Tkachenko Mykhailo or Mykhaylo ( uk, Михайло) is a Ukrainian given name, equivalent to English Michael. Notable people with the name include: * Mykhaylo Berkos (1861–1919), Russian and Ukraine artist of Greek origin *Mykhailo Bolotskykh (born 1960), ...

, Oleksandr Sevryuk, Mykola Kovalevsky, Andriy Nikovsky, Fedir Matushevsky, Yuriy Pyatakov,

Mykyta Shapoval Mykyta ( uk, Мики́та ) is a Ukrainian given name, cognate of Belarusian '' Mikita'' and Russian '' Nikita'', all originally borrowed from Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Eur ...

, Solomon Goldelman, S.Saradzhev, Anatoliy Pisotsky,

Symon Petlyura Symon Vasylyovych Petliura ( uk, Си́мон Васи́льович Петлю́ра; – May 25, 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He became the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Army and the President of the Ukrainian People' ...

, Mykola Shumytsky, Mykhailo Telezhynsky, Hryhoriy Kasyanenko, Isaak Kreisberg,

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 ...

Moisei Rafes Moisei Rafes, ''Moishe Rafes'' uk, Моисей Григорьевич Рафес, ''Moysey Hryhorovych Rafes'' (3 November 1883 – 1942) was a prominent Jewish politician of the Ukrainian People's Republic as the Bundist representative. After ...

, Moisei Zilbelfarb.

Development

On November 9, 1917 in its announcement to residents of Ukraine the committee reported that it concentrate functions of central power in its hands and being responsible to the

. The committee created a revolutionary headquarters for organization of military forces and presented a request to the commander of

Kiev Military District The Kiev Military District (; , abbreviated ) was a military district of the Imperial Russian Army and subsequently of the Red Army and Soviet Armed Forces. It was first formed in 1862, and was headquartered in Kiev (Kyiv) for most of its exis ...

Mikhail Kvetsinsky that all military units will be subordinated to the orders of the Ukrainian General Military Committee (UHVK), while orders of a commander and district headquarters were controlled by a commissariat of nine people that the committee created. The committee also requested to depose the representative of the Provisional Government . The committee, however, was not able to control the situation. The administration of the Kiev Military District (KVO) refused to recognize the committee and after the fall of the

Provisional Government of Russia The Russian Provisional Government ( rus, Временное правительство России, Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii) was a provisional government of the Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately ...

considered itself the only legitimate power in the city. It rejected the committee's request and arrested its members of commissariat who were sent for negotiations. In order to reach a consensus with the headquarters of KVO,

personally as the chairman of UHVK arrived for negotiations. The district administration refused any further negotiations with the committee that included

bolsheviks The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

Committee dissolved

After the executive committee of Central Council of Ukraine condemned the Petrograd uprising on November 8, 1917 adopting a resolution, next day Bolsheviks left the committee. The same day in support of the Petrograd uprising, they conducted a united session with representatives of soviets, trade unions and military units in the building of . The assembly created the Kiev city Bolshevik revolutionary committee in preparation to overthrow the power led by Leonid Pyatakov, brother of

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 ...

. On November 11, 1917 the members of the new Bolshevik Kiev revolutionary committee were arrested. In protest against further negotiations with the Kiev Military District, the members of the rest Ukrainian political parties left the regional committee as well. Due to such situation the committee was forced to dissolve and on November 10, 1917 transferred its authority to the

Bibliography

* ''1917 in Kyiv: chronology of events''. Kyiv, 1928{{fact, date=February 2022 * ''Ukrainian Central Council: Documents and materials''. Vol.1. Kyiv 1996 * Soldatenko, V.F.
Ukraine in the revolution times: historical essay-chronicles in four volumes, 1917
' (Україна у революційну добу. Рік 1917). "Svitohlyad". Kyiv, 2010.

External links

Regional committee in protection of revolution in Ukraine
at the website of Institute of history of Ukraine of the

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; uk, Національна академія наук України, ''Natsional’na akademiya nauk Ukrayiny'', abbr: NAN Ukraine) is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine th ...

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October Revolution. Regional Committee in Protection of Revolution of the Ukrainian Central Council, 1917
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