People's Secretariat
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1917 |
| Dissolved | 1918 |
| Jurisdiction | Kiev |
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The People's Secretariat of Ukraine (
Composition
All secretaries were members of the
At first no agreement was reached who would be heading the government, however it was decided that for the time being the chair will belong to the Secretary of Internal Affairs. The following Secretariat was located in Kharkiv and late January 1918 moved to Kyiv after the Red Army had captured the city.
| Secretariat | Dec 24 - Mar 17 | Notes | Mar 17 - April | Notes |
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| Internal Affairs | Yevgenia Bosch | presiding | Yevgeniy Neronovich | replaced with Yuriy Kotsyubinskiy
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| Military Commissars | Vasiliy Shakhrai
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replaced with Yuriy Kotsyubynsky (Jan 12)
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Vladimir Antonov
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| Labor Affairs | Nikolai Skrypnyk | Ivan Klimenko | ||
| Finance | Vladimir Aussem
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Vladimir Aussem
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| International Affairs | Sergei Bakinsky | replaced with Ivan Kulyk | Vladimir Zatonskiy (acting) | replaced with Nikolai Skrypnyk |
| Agrarian Affairs | Yevgeniy Terletskiy
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Yevgeniy Terletskiy
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| Justice | Vladimir Lyuksemburg | Vladimir Lyuksemburg | ||
| Education | Vladimir Zatonskiy | Vladimir Zatonskiy | ||
| Trade / Industry | Fyodor Sergeyev | Nikolai Skrypnyk | presiding | |
| Office Affairs | Ivan Kulyk | replaced with Georgiy Lapchinskiy | Georgiy Lapchinskiy | |
| Food Supply | Ye. Luganovskiy | Ye. Luganovskiy | ||
| Transportation | Sergei Bakinsky | none | ||
| Social Security | none | Georgiy Lapchinskiy |
On March 4, 1918, some changes took place in the cabinet as Bosch resigned in protest to the
Later Ya. Martyanov (secretary of Postal and Telegraph) was added to the cabinet. On March 7, 1918, the Secretariat of Military Affairs was reformed into the triumvirate as the Petrograd
Although the government had its own Secretariat of Internal Affairs the state security was conducted by the All-Russian Extraordinary Committee.
Both Bosch and Antonov took orders only from Lenin as the last one performed duties of People's Commissar of Russia and Ukraine. At the Second All Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (see
Stalin vs. Skrypnyk
On April 4, 1918
The next day Zatonsky sent the copy of that notice to the Ukrainian representative in Russia
Selected groups and parts of the Russian Federation that fragment away from it (Crimea, Don, etc.) now propose to the Ukrainian People's Republic to create the South Soviet Federation. However the People's Secretariat has always tried to unite for the struggle against the Central Rada the toiling masses of localities at which that Central Rada has laid its eye and has no intentions to involve in its fight the Russian Federation nor its separate parts.
In regards to the request of Narkom Stalin for the People's Secretariat evacuated out of Taganrog, we only underline that Taganrog is part of the Ukrainian People's Republic and only the population of this territory can decide to which particular Soviet Federation it wish to belong: Russian or Ukrainian.
According to the above declared we're asking the government of Russian Federation to make appropriate explanations in regards to the announcement of Narkom Stalin and with that cancel the consequences of his announcement which so adversely may influence the struggle of the Ukrainian toiling masses for socialism.
Extraordinary Authorized Embassy of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Federation.
Chairman of People's Secretary M.Skrypnyk People's Secretaries Kotsiubynsky, Vrublevsky"
Note: The letter is translated from its original copy that can be found in the Ukrainian Central State Archives of the Supreme Bodies of Power.
Further developments
On April 18, 1918, it was disbanded and reorganized together with the
Notes
- ^ Cekuka was the name for the Ukrainian Central Executive Committee with intention to differentiate it from the Russian counterpart.
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References
- ^ Украинская Советская Федеративная Народная Республика (Народный Секретариат УСФНР) 1918. constituanta.blogspot.com (constituanta.blogspot.com/2012/10/1918)