Central Executive Committee of Ukraine

All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee Всеукраїнський центральний виконавчий комітет

Type
Type	unicameral
Leadership
1st Chairman	Yukhym Medvedev, USDRP (left) Since December 24, 1917
2nd Chairman	Volodymyr Zatonsky, Bolshevik Since March 19, 1918
3rd Chairman	Hryhoriy Petrovsky, CP(b)U Since March 10, 1919
Structure
Seats	number varied
Political groups	Communists
Political groups	non-Communists
Meeting place
Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR

All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (Ukrainian: Всеукраїнський центральний виконавчий комітет) was a representative body of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets. It was the supreme legislative, administrative, executive controlling state power of the Soviet Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR) between the sessions of the Congress of Soviets that acted between 1917 until 1938. In the very beginning this institution was established as the Central Executive Committee of Soviet of Ukraine at the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets in Kharkiv on December 24-25, 1917. At the same congress was elected the People's Secretariat of Ukraine.

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 Bolsheviks and four were Left SRs. One of the members Yukhym Medvedev was the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Labour Party (left deviation). The committee did not last long and on April 18, 1918 was merged with the People's Secretariat into the Uprising Nine, a type of revkom.

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 Kharkiv. For almost 20 years from 1919 to 1938 head of the committee was Petrovsky. He however was overshadowed by more prominent Party leaders such as Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Dmitriy Manuilsky, and others. The other chairmen of the committee served for less than a year.

Chairmen

Central Executive Committee of Soviet Ukraine

Yukhym Medvedev December 24, 1917 - March 18, 1918
Volodymyr Zatonsky March 19, 1918 - April 18, 1918 (2nd All-Ukrainian Congress in Yekaterinoslav)

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

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk delegation

The signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was attended by representatives of the Soviet Ukraine. The delegation consisted of Vasyl Shakhrai and Yukhym Medvedev.

External links

Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union (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 (Russian)

Modern Ukraine after the Russian Revolution (1917–1920)

Universals (Central Council of Ukraine) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Act Zluky

Ukrainian national states	Ukrainian People's Republic Ukrainian State Ukrainian People's Republic (led by Directorate)

Crimean national states	Crimean People's Republic Crimean Regional Government

Soviet states	Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets Ukrainian Soviet Republic Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic Odessa Soviet Republic Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic

Parliaments	Central Council of Ukraine Minor Council Directorate Constituent Assembly Central Executive Committee of Ukraine

Political parties	Ukrainian Socialist Parties USDLP independent left Socialists-Sovereigns UPSF Bolsheviks UPSR Ukrainian Social Democratic Party Borotbists Ukrainian Radical Party Communist Party of Western Ukraine Soviet of Peasants Deputies Ukrainian Peasant Society Soviet of Workers Deputies Soviet of Soldiers Deputies Jewish Socialist Parties Fareynikte The Bund Poalei Zion Polish Socialist Parties Polish Democratic Center Party Polish Socialist Party Russian Socialist Parties Socialist Revolutionary Party Mensheviks Kadets Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance

Major figures	Mykhailo Hrushevsky Volodymyr Vynnychenko Vsevolod Holubovych Symon Petliura Noman Çelebicihan Yukhym Medvedev Volodymyr Zatonsky Georgiy Pyatakov Yuri Gaven Bela Kun

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