Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR () or the Radnarkom () was the highest governing body of executive power in

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from January 1919 to 1946. Until 1937 it was also a legislative body as well. The council replaced the Temporary Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine in January 1919. In 1919 during the advance of the Denikin's Army (

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) the role of the council was suspended and for a short period it was merged with the

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and leadership of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine forming the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee.

List of governments

People's Secretariat The People's Secretariat of Ukraine () was the executive body of the Provisional Central Executive Committee of Soviets in Ukraine. It was formed in Kharkiv on December 30, 1917, as a form of the Soviet concept of dual power by the Russian and o ...

(Skrypnyk, 1917–1918) ** Insurgent Bureau (underground resistance) / Central Military Revolutionary Committee (1918) * Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine (Pyatakov, 1918–1919) * First Rakovsky Government (1919) ** All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee (1919–1920) * Second Rakovsky Government (1920–1923) * Chubar Government (1923–1934) * Lyubchenko Government (1934–1937) * Bondarenko–Marchak Government (1937–1938) * First Korotchenko Government (1938–1939) * Korniyets Government (1939–1944, government-in-exile during

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) * Khrushchev Government (1944–1946)

Return of Bolsheviks to Ukraine

After liberation of Ukraine from Denikin's Army in February 1920 was introduced the new composition of the council. ;Composition (Feb. 1920) * Rakovsky, Narkom of Internal Affairs * Manuilsky, Narkom of Land Affairs * Hrynko, Narkom of Enlightenment * Vladymirov, Narkom of Provision * Terletsky, Narkom of Justice * Paderin, Narkom of Social Security * Kost, Narkom of Health Care * Chubar, representative of the Higher Council of National Economy of

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In December 1920 after signing a friendship treaty with the

the council also included several united ministries with the

that were guided from

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. On July 13, 1923, Rakovsky was replaced with Vlas Chubar and reassigned on a diplomatic mission. In 1920 there was created the Ukrainian Economical council that in 1923 was included into the Council of People's Commissars.

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Historical overlook on the formation of the Soviet state and Ukrainian Soviet republic

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Політика Радянського уряду в Україні у 1919 р. (Policy of the Soviet government in Ukraine in 1919)
* Akshinsky, V.
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List of governments

Return of Bolsheviks to Ukraine

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