Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine

The Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine was a provisional Soviet government created on November 28, 1918, in Kursk on decision of the Communist Party of Ukraine and help of the Russian Workers-Peasants Red Army (RKKA), with its place of location was assigned the city of Sudzha (today in Kursk Oblast). 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 Minsk. The Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine became the highest legislative, executive and administrative body of Soviet power in Ukraine as the Soviet Russia 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 Central powers. 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.