Political organizations of Yakutia and the establishment of the Soviet power in the summer of 1918

The scholarly article, based on the analysis of archival documents, periodicals, and published materials, examines the attitude of political organizations in Yakutia to the establishment of the Soviet power in the summer of 1918. The political situation that had developed in the Yakut region by the summer of 1918 is analyzed. The history of the organization of the Centrosiberian expedition under the command of A. S. Rydzinsky to Yakutiaand the establishment of the Soviet power in the region in the summer of 1918 are shown. Conclusions were drawn that the right Socialist Revolutionaries, federalists and Cadets were opponents of the Soviet power, and the Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, and left Socialist Revolutionaries supported the Reds. The peculiarities of the political situation in the Yakut region, the remoteness of the region from the center of the country, the course of the armed confrontation in Siberia predetermined that Soviet power lasted in Yakutsk for just over a month in the summer of 1918, and its final establishment occurred only after the end of the civil war.

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