Yakutia (1918)
Yakutia was a short-lived regional administration in Yakutia. Yakutias capital was Irkutsk. Yakutia would fight in the Russian Civil War against the Bolsheviks. Yakutia would be dissolved when a detachment of Soviets arrived and captured Yakutia.
Yakutia Саха | |||||||||
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| Capital | Irkutsk | ||||||||
| Common languages | Yakut, Russian | ||||||||
| Government | Regional administration | ||||||||
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• 1918 | V. V. Popov | ||||||||
| Historical era | Russian Civil War | ||||||||
• Established | February 1918 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1 July 1918 | ||||||||
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History
After the February Revolution of 1917 in Russia, ethnic Yakuts began politically organizing and forming their own local committees. Following the Bolshevik seizure of power during the October Revolution of 1917, the Yakut committees were merged into an anti-Bolshevik autonomous regional administration, the "Yakut Committee to Safeguard the Revolution". After the formal proclamation of the Russian Soviet Republic in January 1918, the Committee declared the independence of Yakutia in reaction to these events. This independent government was overthrown on July 1 by the intervention of Soviet troops from Irkutsk lead by A. S. Rydzinski.[1][2][3]
Government and politics
The government was leaded by the "Yakut Committee of Safeguard and Revolution" or the "Yakut Committee of Public Safety".[2] Their chairman was V. V. Popov.
References
- "Yakutia-from 1917".
- James Forsyth (1994). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990. Cambridge University Press. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-0-521-47771-0.
- "Communism in Yakutia : The First Decade (1918-1928)" (PDF). E. Stuart Kirby. 1980.