The Provisional Siberian Government ( Russian : Вре́менное Сиби́рское прави́тельство , later the Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia ), was an ephemeral government for Siberia created by the White movement .
15-407: Provisional Siberian Government may refer to: Provisional Siberian Government (Vladivostok) Provisional Siberian Government (Omsk) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Provisional Siberian Government . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
30-627: A delay necessitated by the inability to assemble a quorum of elected representatives, on the night of January 28/29, 1918, some forty delegates finally succeeded in gathering in Tomsk to perform their business. This body expeditiously elected a government known as the Provisional Siberian Government (PSG), with young Socialist-Revolutionary Piotr Derber elected president. Of the PSG's twenty ministers, only six had been present at
45-726: A moderate liberal." Autonomous Siberia's flag was green and white to symbolize the snows and forests. On 4 July, this Siberian government declared itself as the sole Siberian authority. The Derber government in Vladivostok refused to recognize the legitimacy of this new government based in Omsk . A reorganization of the Vladivostok government followed, with the name Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia (PGAS) adopted. The PGAS in Vladivostok and new PSG in Omsk each refused to recognize
60-625: A new government took place through the efforts of the more conservative groups and army officers. According to Chamberlin, "The first sign of a swing to the right was the replacement of the Commissariat, which had been guided in its activities by the programme of the Socialist Revolutionary Party , by a group of Ministers of the Derber Government, headed by Pyotr Vologodsky , a jurist with the reputation of
75-795: The Bolshevik Party in Petrograd in the Russian Revolution of November 1917 was followed by the dispersal of the Russian Constituent Assembly early in the morning of January 19, 1918 (N.S.) , a body which had been dominated by the elected representatives of the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries (PSR), directed by Victor Chernov . This usurpation of authority by the Council of People's Commissars and
90-507: The 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets did not end opposition to the Bolshevik regime, however. In December 1917 elections were held to select a Siberian Regional Duma which was to be convened in the city of Tomsk . Owing to the revolutionary temper of the times, the middle class and the bourgeoisie had been excluded from the elections to this body, a decision which was denounced by the centrist Constitutional Democratic Party (known as
105-822: The K-D, or Kadets). Additionally the Bolsheviks considered the Siberian effort as an attempt to reduce the sovereignty of their own regime and refused to participate with the elections to this Siberian Regional Duma or to recognize the body's legitimacy. With the Monarchist Right and the Center both effectively excluded, and the Bolshevik Left boycotting, the delegates elected to the Siberian regional parliament were dominated by members of Chernov's PSR. After
120-586: The Socialist-Revolutionary Party. In September 1918, Pyotr Vologodsky , representing the Provisional All-Russian Government , traveled to Eastern Siberia according to Chamberlin, "...and obtained the abdication of the phantom Derber Cabinet in Vladivostok." Provisional Siberian Government (Omsk) The Provisional Siberian Government ( Russian : Вре́менное Сиби́рское прави́тельство , PSG )
135-851: The West Siberian Commissariat was announced after the Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion . According to William Henry Chamberlin , "...the initiative in setting up a new government was taken by three men, Markhov, Mikhailov and Lindberg, who described themselves as representatives of the Siberian Government and members of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly , and by the head of the Tomsk Zemstvo , Sidorov." On 30 June
150-474: The formation of this new government, and during a meeting at Vladivostok his PSG was renamed as the Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia (PGAS). PGAS and the new PSG didn't recognize each other and each claimed itself as the only government of Siberia, but Derber's government didn't have armed forces. Soon afterward, Derber resigned and left Vladivostok; his successor was I.A.Lavrov of
165-493: The founding meeting of January 28–29. Two had been in Bolshevik prison, and the rest were scattered throughout Siberia and north China and were chosen in absentia, without their prior consent. Soon afterward, Derber and many other PSG officials went to Vladivostok in the more secure Pacific region. On 1 June 1918, after the Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion , the formation of the West Siberian Commissariat
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195-744: The other, and each claimed to be the sole government of Siberia. The generals of the Siberian Army deferred to the Vologodskii government in Omsk, however, resulting in the marginalization of the Vladivostok regime. During September 1918, after the State Meeting in Ufa , the Provisional Siberian Government (Omsk) was transitioned into a new government, the Provisional All-Russian Government, known informally as
210-581: Was a short-lived government in Siberia created by political Whites in 1918. During January 1918, a Provisional Siberian Government (PSG) was established, and its government chose to locate in the eastern coastal city of Vladivostok . Most of the members of this first Siberian provisional government were members of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party (PSR), including the president of this government, Pyotr Derber. On 1 June 1918,
225-724: Was announced. According to William Henry Chamberlin , "It derived its claim to authority from the Government, headed by a Socialist Revolutionary named Derber, which had been elected in February by the Siberian Regional Duma, a body which had been chosen on the basis of universal suffrage and which, like the Constituent Assembly , had been dispersed by the Bolsheviki." Derber didn't agree with
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