All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee

All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (

On March 19, 1919, the committee issued a declaration, in which it passed most of its authority to the Sovnarkom of Ukraine at that time headed by Christian Rakovsky.

Historical scope

The committee was first elected at the 1st All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets on December 24, 1917, under the name of TsVK of Soviet Ukraine. The first committee was accounted for 41 members among which 35 were

TsVK was reanimated once again by the 3rd All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets in Kharkiv on March 10, 1919. On the same session of the congress was adopted the Constitution of Ukrainian SSR which established legal basis for the Soviet power in the state. The committee was named as VUTsVK (for All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee), but often was referred to as TsIKUK. The new committee was almost twice as big while the number of its members continued to grow from one convocation of the congress to another. The committee was reorganized after the adoption of the Constitution of Ukrainian SSR of 1937.

In total there were 14 convocations of the committee, 12 of which were taken place in

Chairmen

Central Executive Committee of Soviet Ukraine

• Yukhym Medvedev
  December 24, 1917 – March 18, 1918
• Yekaterinoslav
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All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (of Soviets)

Since 1935 the committee changed back to the Central Executive Committee of Ukrainian SSR.

• Hryhoriy Petrovsky
  March 10, 1919 – July 25, 1938

Subordinated offices

• Central Commission in affairs of National Minorities
• Extraordinary Commission (Cheka), created on 22 February 1918
• Regional Military-Revolutionary Committee to Combat Counter-Revolution, provisional office for creation of Red Guards elements, established on 31 December 1917

List of elected members

1917

• Pyotr Anokhin (Bolshevik)
• Nikolay Artamonov (Bolshevik)
• Vladimir Aussem
  (Bolshevik)
• Sergei Bakinskiy (Bolshevik)
• Yevgenia Bosch (Bolshevik)
• Boris Belenskiy (Bolshevik)
• Alexander Horwitz (Bolshevik)
• Hochman (Menshevik-Internationalist)
• Nikolay Danilevskiy (Bolshevik)
• Pyotr Zagrebelny (Bolshevik)
• Andrei Ivanov
  (Bolshevik)
• Izrail Kulik (Bolshevik)
• Yuriy Lapchinskiy (Bolshevik)
• Vladimir Luxemburg (Bolshevik)
• Martyanov (Bolshevik)
• Yefim Medvedev
  (Left Ukrainian Social-Democrat)
• Andrei Novikov (Socialist-Revolutionary)
• Arshak Aleksandrov (Left Socialist-Revolutionary)
• Ostragorskiy (Bolshevik)
• Leonid Pyatakov (Bolshevik)
• Alexey Piontkovskiy (Bolshevik)
• Nikolay Poldyayev (Bolshevik)
• Polikarp Reshetko (Bolshevik)
• Ivan Sambur (Bolshevik)
• Yevsey Segal (Bolshevik)
• Sergei Sivkov (Bolshevik)
• Silin (Bolshevik)
• Slutskiy (Bolshevik)
• Smolyakov (Bolshevik)
• Fyodor Sergeyev (Comrade Artyom, Bolshevik)
• Alexander Yemelyanov (Comrade Surik, Bolshevik)
• Nikolay Tarnagrodskiy (Bolshevik)
• Yevgeniy Terletskiy (Left Socialist-Revolutionary)
• Tiniakov (Bolshevik)
• Samuil Firger (Bolshevik)
• Alfred Zeiger (Bolshevik)
• Nikolay Chupilka (Bolshevik)
• Vasiliy Shakhray (Bolshevik)
• Stepan Sheludko (Socialist-Revolutionary)
• Shustov (Bolshevik)
• Isac Erliherman (Left Socialist-Revolutionary)

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk delegation

The signing of the

See also

• Verkhovna Rada
• All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets
• Council of People's Commissars (Ukraine)

External links

• Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union (in Russian)
• Всеукраїнський Центральний Виконавчий Комітет (ВУЦВК). Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Babiy, B.M. Ukrainian Soviet State in the period of reconstruction of national economy (1921–1925). Kiev, 1961
• History of Ukrainian SSR. Vol. 6–7. Kiev, 1984 (in Russian)