Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine

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Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Тимчасовий Робітничо-Селянський Уряд України) was provisional Soviet government created on November 28, 1918 in Kursk on decision of the Communist Party of Ukraine, the place of location was assigned the city of Sudzha. On the same day the government released its manifest. It became the highest legislative, executive and administrative body of Soviet power in Ukraine as the Soviet Russia resumed hostilities.

All-Ukrainian Central Military Revolutionary Committee

Since July 1918 Bolsheviks were preparing the uprising against government of Pavlo Skoropadsky and to prevent reestablishment of the Central Council of Ukraine. At the Party Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine that took place on July 5–12, 1918 in Moscow 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 Kursk and consisted from members of the Insurgency Bureau of the former Bolshevik government of Ukraine. Among its members were Andrei Bubnov (leader), Volodymyr Zatonsky, Vladimir Aussem, Yuri Kotsyubynsky, and Yuri Pyatakov.

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 Hetman of Ukraine. The Central Military-Revolutionary Committee was created in July 1918 at the First Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine that took place in Moscow. The leader of the committee was Andrei Bubnov. 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 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on November 17, 1918, the Sovnarkom of the Soviet Russia gave an order on organization of the Revolutionary Military Council at the Kursk Direction Army Group that included Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Volodymyr Zatonsky and Joseph Stalin, while the commander of the task force was Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko. After the creation of the government, Joseph Stalin in the military council was replaced by Fyodor Sergeyev.

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. On January 16, 1919 the government fired its chairman Yuri Pyatakov and elected Fyodor Sergeyev as his successor. On January 28, 1919 the provisional government was replaced by the Council of People's Commissars represented by the First Rakovsky Government. The 3rd All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (March 6–10, 1919) approved the new government as the Council of People's Commissars by adopting the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR.

Composition

Government in Sudzha

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