All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee ( uk, Всеукраїнський Революційний Комітет) was a temporary supreme body of Soviet power in Ukraine that was created by the
Central Executive Committee and the
Council of People's Commissars
The Councils of People's Commissars (SNK; russian: Совет народных комиссаров (СНК), ''Sovet narodnykh kommissarov''), commonly known as the ''Sovnarkom'' (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of ...
on December 11, 1919, and existed until February 19, 1920. The committee possessed both legislative and executive powers and was based in
Homel.
Initially it was composed of five members:
Grigoriy Petrovsky
Grigory Ivanovich Petrovsky (russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Петро́вский, uk, Григо́рій Іва́нович Петро́вський, translit=Hryhorii Ivanovych Petrovskyi) (3 February 1878 - 9 January 1958) wa ...
(chair),
Dmitriy Manuilsky
Dmitriy Manuilsky, or Dmytro Zakharovych Manuilsky ( Russian: Дми́трий Заха́рович Мануи́льский; Ukrainian: Дмитро Захарович Мануїльський; October 1883 in Sviatets near Kremenets – 22 ...
,
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 ...
(all Bolsheviks),
Hryhoriy Hrynko (Borotbist), and
Volodymyr Kachynsky (Borbyst). Later the number of members was increased to eight with
Christian Rakovsky
Christian Georgievich Rakovsky (russian: Христиа́н Гео́ргиевич Рако́вский; bg, Кръстьо Георги́ев Рако́вски; – September 11, 1941) was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevi ...
,
Vlas Chubar
Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar ( uk, Влас Якович Чубар; russian: Вла́с Я́ковлевич Чуба́рь) ( – 26 February 1939) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. Chubar was arrested during the Great ...
, and
Myron Vladimirov. The committee's secretary was
Veniamin Yeroshchenko Veniamin is the Russian version of the name Benjamin, and may refer to:
* Veniamin Alexandrov (1937–1991), Soviet professional ice hockey player
* Veniamin Belkin (1884–1951), Russian artist and painter
* Veniamin Fleishman, (1913–1941), Russ ...
.
The committee issued many important resolutions among which were:
* "about the basic principles of land affairs in Ukraine"
* "announcing
Nestor Makhno
Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, The surname "Makhno" ( uk, Махно́) was itself a corruption of Nestor's father's surname "Mikhnenko" ( uk, Міхненко). ( 1888 – 25 July 1934), also known as Bat'ko Makhno ("Father Makhno"),; According to ...
and
his supporters as outlaws"
* "about War Policy in Ukraine"
* "unification and cooperation between Ukrainian SSR and Russian SFSR"
* "application of highest measure of punishment in Ukraine"
* "to workers and peasants of Ukraine"
* "Temporary Provisions on the organization of Soviet power in Ukraine" (December 22, 1919)
On January 27, 1920, the committee extended onto the territory of Ukraine validity of the decrees of the
Russian SFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
.
External links
All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committeeat Juridical Encyclopedia
All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committeeat
Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( uk, Українська радянська енциклопедія, ''Ukrayinska radyanska entsyklopediya'') was a multi-purpose encyclopedia of Ukraine, issued in the USSR.
First attempt
Following th ...
Soviet government of Ukraine in 1917-23at histpol.narod.ru (originally at the website of
Cabinet of Ukraine
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ( uk, Кабінет Міністрів України, translit=Kabinet Ministriv Ukrainy; shortened to CabMin), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine ( uk, Уряд України, ''Uriad Ukrai ...
)
* Sverbiguz, V.
Has a communist his native land? Ukrainian answer'. Newspaper "Den". October 27, 2001
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Ukraine
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Council of People's Commissars (Ukraine)
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 ...
1919 in Ukraine
Ukraine in the Russian Civil War