Directorate of Ukraine
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Directorate of Ukraine | |
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7th–12th Cabinet of Ukrainian People's Republic | |
Date formed | 13 November 1918 |
Date dissolved | 10 November 1920 |
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Incoming formation | Gerbel Government |
Outgoing formation | State abolished Second Rakovsky Government (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) |
Predecessor | Sergei Gerbel |
Successor | Christian Rakovsky |
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The Directorate, or Directory (Ukrainian: Директорія, romanized: Dyrektoriia) was a provisional collegiate revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian People's Republic, initially formed on 13–14 November 1918 during a session of the Ukrainian National Union in rebellion against the Ukrainian State.[a 1] During the Anti-Hetman Uprising it was named as the Executive Council of the State Affairs.[a 2] Its authority was extended by the Labor Congress of Ukraine on 23–28 January 1919.
After unsuccessful attempts to gather members of the committee, it dissolved on 10 November 1920. On 12 November 1920 by the Law on the Temporary Supreme Authority and the Legislative System of the UNR, the executive council was reformed into a single-person government position.
Overview
The Directorate was formed until a new council was to be elected to form the professional government. It was decided not to restore functioning of the Central Rada which was favored by the SR-centrists Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Vsevolod Holubovych. The new council, the Labor Congress, appointed the Directorate as the Extraordinary Government Body in the protection of the republic. It was charged to enact laws in the absence of the Labor Congress due to the political situation in the country, while the Council of the People's Ministers was invested with the executive powers. The Directorate consisted of five delegates from various parties and representation groups.
Members
Vynnychenko left the government (10 February 1919) in the hope that the Directorate would establish friendly talks with representatives of the Entente[a 3] while Petliura left the SDPists, thus demonstrating that the Ukrainian government had changed its political agenda and was not the same one that had signed the treaty in Brest-Litovsk on 9 February 1918. In light of that a new Prime Minister was appointed as well, Serhiy Ostapenko, who headed his non-socialist government from 11 February 1919. When talks failed, Ostapenko was replaced by Borys Martos on 9 April 1919.
: Chairman of the Directorate
Name | Party | Term start | Term end | |
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Volodymyr Vynnychenko |
Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party | 14 November 1918 | 11 February 1919 | |
Symon Petliura |
Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party (Sich Riflemen delegate) | 14 November 1918 | 10 November 1920 | |
Fedir Shvets |
Independent (Peasant Associations delegate)[a 4] | 14 November 1918 | 21 May 1920[a 5] | |
Andrii Makarenko |
Independent (Railway workers delegate) | 14 November 1918 | 21 May 1920[a 5] | |
Opanas Andrievsky | Independent | 14 November 1918 | 29 April 1919[a 6] | |
Yevhen Petrushevych |
Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance | 22 January 1919 | Unknown[a 7] |
List of governments
Over two years (December 1918 to November 1920) there were five governments before the Directorate went into official exile at the end of 1920. Between 15 December and 25 December 1918 a stand-off took place between the Revolutionary Committee in Kyiv and the provisional Executive Council of State Affairs (TRZDS) in Vinnytsia. It took couple of weeks before the new government was formed on December 26 headed by
Start | End | Prime Minister |
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1918-12-26 | 1919-02-13 | Chekhivsky
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1919-02-13 | 1919-04-09 | Ostapenko |
1919-04-09 | 1919-08-27 | Martos |
1919-08-27 | 1920-05-26 | Mazepa |
1920-05-26 | 1920-11-12 | Prokopovych
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History
In December 1918
Post-Hetmanate recovery
With the defeat of the Central Powers in World War I, Skoropadsky could no longer rely on Germany and Austria-Hungary's support. On 13 November 1918 Skoropadky's opponents set up a rival body known as the Directorate, whose forces were headed by the newly reformed Sich Riflemen. Most of Skoropadsky's troops joined with the Directorate during a month-long Ukrainian Civil War. Skoropadsky then turned to some of the Russian officers who were fighting alongside Anton Denikin, forming them into a Special Corps, but these troops were not able to face the Directorate's troops. On 19 December 1918, the Directorate's troops took Kyiv and overthrew Skoropadsky's regime.
The Directorate re-established the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR). The new regime was torn between the pro-nationalistic, including the party of peasant-democrats, and the factions for the federal union with Russia. At the end the idea to reestablish the Central Rada was set aside as well as to recover all its legal acts yet the most important one were preserved. On 26 December 1918 the Directorate released its declaration to eliminate the Hetman regime.
By the end of 1918 the Directorate began to be dominated by the Ukrainian military leader, Symon Petliura.
Faced by many enemies on all sides the UNR's army was organised to face each threat. To the North-east were the
Change of powers 1919-1920
With major fighting breaking out in January 1919, the Ukrainians were pushed back and Kyiv fell in February 1919. The government moved to
In 1920, the Polish Army reorganized with the help from the two new Ukrainian divisions to prepare an offensive against the Denikin's forces. A
Normative Acts
At the first stage, the Directorate recovered all of the rights of peasants and workers that were established by the laws passed by the Central Rada:
Until the complete solution of the Land Reform, the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic declares that all small peasant's holdings and all worker's holdings to be left for use of their previous owners, while the rest of lands to be transferred to the peasant with little or no land holdings with the priorities to those who joined the Republican forces against the struggle with the former
Hetman. The Supreme subordination over the land is carried by the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic. This statement concerns also the monastery, church, and government land holdings. For introduction of the Reform there was organized the People's Land Committee...
The Directorate canceled all the codes of the former Hetmanate government concerning workers policies. The eight-hour working day was reestablished as well as the practice of cooperative agreements, the rights on coalition and activist strikes, and various other normative acts.
See also
Notes
- ^ Map
- ^ Ukrainian: Рада Завідуючих Державними Справами, romanized: Rada Zaviduiuchykh Derzhavnymy Spravamy
- ^ Others speculate that Vynnychenko left because of political disagreements with Petliura over state affairs .
- ^ The Peasant Association had close ties with the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
- ^ a b Shvets and Makarenko left the country on state matters on 15 November 1919. When Petliura asked them to return they never responded and were excluded from their duties and obligations. (21 May 1920)
- ^ Resigned due to the Oskilko Affair
- ^ Joined the Directorate in accordance with a resolution of the Labor Congress following the unification of the two Ukrainian states (22 January 1919), but he did not actually participate in the Directorate's work and eventually resigned from it.[citation needed]
References
- ^ ISBN 1857430581(page 849)
- ISBN 0-8020-5808-6
- ISBN 9780974493442.
- Documents
- Central State Archives of public organization in Ukraine (TsDAHO), ф. Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine #1, оп. 20, спр. 103, sheet. 1-3.
- TsDAHO України, ф. #43, оп. 1, спр. 3, sheet. 2-3.
- Publications
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Further reading
External links
- (in English) Historical overview of the Directorate at Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- (in Ukrainian) A.Skromnitsky, "Relations of the Directorate of Ukraine with the Soviet Russia (november 1918 - april 1919)". 9 September 2006.
- (in Russian) Biographical listing of most of the historical personalities at Hrono
- Valeriy Soldatenko (member-correspondent of NAN Ukraine). Directory and Recovery of UPR. #47(727), December 20-26, 2008 (in Ukrainian)