Far Eastern Republic




This article is about the Russian Far East buffer state during the Russian Civil War. For the worker's republic during the Russian Revolution of 1905, see Chita Republic.



























































































Far Eastern Republic


Дальневосточная Республика
Dalnevostochnaya Respublika

1920–1922


Flag of Far Eastern Republic

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Far Eastern Republic: *Maximum extension 1920 (green and dark green). *Extension from 1920 to 1922 (dark green).
Far Eastern Republic:

  • Maximum extension 1920 (green and dark green).

  • Extension from 1920 to 1922 (dark green).



Status
Puppet state/Buffer state of Soviet Russia
Capital Verkhneudinsk (to Oct 1920)
Chita
Common languages Russian
Government Socialist Republic
President  
• 6 Apr 1920 – Dec 1921
Alexander Krasnoshchyokov
• Dec 1921 – 15 Nov 1922
Nikolay Matveyev

Prime Minister  
• 6 Apr – Nov 1920
Alexander Krasnoshchyokov
• Nov 1920 – Apr 1921
Boris Shumyatsky
• 8 May – Dec 1921
Pyotr Nikiforov
• Dec 1921 – 14 Nov 1922
Nikolay Matveyev
• 14–15 Nov 1922
Pyotr Kobozev

History  
• Established
6 April 1920
• Disestablished
15 November 1922

Area
1,900,000 km2 (730,000 sq mi)
Population
• 
3500000












Preceded by
Succeeded by



















Russia Eastern Outskirts

Provisional Priamurye Government

Green Ukraine

State of Buryat-Mongolia






Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic


Today part of
 Russian Federation

The Far Eastern Republic (Russian: Дальневосто́чная Респу́блика, ДВР, tr. Dalnevostochnaya Respublika, DVR, IPA: [dəlʲnʲɪvɐˈstotɕnəjə rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə]), sometimes called the Chita Republic, was a nominally independent state that existed from April 1920 to November 1922 in the easternmost part of the Russian Far East. Although nominally independent, it was largely controlled by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and its main purpose was to be a buffer state between the RSFSR and the territories occupied by Japan during the Russian Civil War. Its first president was Alexander Krasnoshchyokov.


The Far Eastern Republic occupied the territory of modern Zabaykalsky Krai, Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky Krai of Russia (the former Transbaikal and Amur oblasts and Primorsky krai). Its capital was established at Verkhneudinsk (now Ulan-Ude), but in October 1920 it was moved to Chita.


After the fall of Vladivostok on 25 October 1922, the civil war was declared over. Three weeks later, on 15 November 1922, the Far Eastern Republic was merged with the RSFSR.




Contents






  • 1 History


    • 1.1 Establishment


    • 1.2 The 1921 coup




  • 2 Territory and resources


  • 3 Chairmen of the Government (heads of state)


  • 4 Chairmen of the Council of Ministers (Prime Ministers)


  • 5 Prominent people born in the Far Eastern Republic


  • 6 See also


  • 7 Footnotes


  • 8 Further reading





History



Establishment


The Far Eastern Republic was established in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War. During the Civil War local authorities generally controlled the towns and cities of the Russian Far East, cooperating to a greater or lesser extent with the White Siberian government of Alexander Kolchak and with the succeeding invading forces of the Japanese Army. When the Japanese evacuated the Trans-Baikal and Amur oblasts in the spring of 1920, a political vacuum resulted.


A new central authority was established at Chita to govern the Far Eastern Republic remaining in the Japanese wake.[1] The Far Eastern Republic was established comprising only the area around Verkhne-Udinsk, but during the summer of 1920, the Soviet government of the Amur territory agreed to join.


The Far Eastern Republic was formed two months after Kolchak's death with the tacit support of the government of Soviet Russia, which saw it as a temporary buffer state between the RSFSR and the territories occupied by Japan.[2] Many members of the Russian Communist Party had disagreed with the decision to allow a new government in the region, believing that their approximately 4,000 members were capable of seizing power in their own right.[3] However, Vladimir Lenin and other party leaders in Moscow felt that the approximately 70,000 Japanese and 12,000 American troops might regard such an action as a provocation, which might spur a further attack that the Soviet Republic could ill afford.[3]


On 1 April 1920, American forces headed by General William S. Graves departed Siberia, leaving the Japanese the sole occupying power in the region with whom the Bolsheviks were forced to deal.[4] This detail did not change the basic equation for the Bolshevik government in Moscow, however, which continued to see the establishment of a Far Eastern Republic as a sort of Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in the east, providing the regime with a necessary breathing space that would allow it to recover economically and militarily.[5]


On 6 April 1920, a hastily convened Constituent Assembly gathered at Verkhneudinsk and proclaimed the establishment of the Far Eastern Republic. Promises were made that the republic's new constitution would guarantee free elections under the principles of universal, direct, and equal suffrage and that foreign investment in the country would be encouraged.[3]




Members of the Far Eastern Republic Government


The Far Eastern Republic, controlled by moderate socialists, was only grudgingly recognized by the various cities of the region towards the end of 1920.[2] Violence, atrocities, and reprisals continued to erupt periodically for the next 18 months.[2]


Japan agreed to recognize the new buffer state in a truce with the Red Army signed 15 July 1920, effectively abandoning Ataman Grigory Semenov and his Russia Eastern Outskirts.[3] By October Semenov had been expelled from his base of operations in Chita. With Semenov out of the picture, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic moved to that city.[2]


On 11 November 1920 a provisional national assembly for the Far East met in Vladivostok. The gathering recognized the government at Chita and set 9 January 1921 as the date for new elections for the Constituent Assembly of the Far Eastern Republic.[3] A new constitution closely resembling the United States Constitution was written and approved on 27 April 1921.[3]



The 1921 coup


However, right-wing forces rejected the idea of a fledgling democratic republic. On 26 May 1921 a White coup took place in Vladivostok, backed by Japanese occupying forces.[2] A cordon sanitaire of Japanese troops protected the insurgents, who sought to establish a new régime known as the Provisional Government of the Priamur. Shortly after the coup, Ataman Semenov arrived in Vladivostok and attempted to proclaim himself commander-in-chief—an effort which failed when his Japanese benefactors forsook him.[6]


The new Provisional Government of Priamur attempted—with little success—to rally the various anti-Bolshevik forces to its banner.[7] Its leaders, two Vladivostok businessmen, the brothers S.D. and N.D. Merkulov, found themselves left isolated when the Japanese Army announced on 24 June 1922 that it would remove all of its troops from Siberia by the end of October.[7] A July Zemsky sobor deposed the Merkulov brothers and named a former officer of the Czech Legion, M.K. Dieterichs, as military dictator.[7]


With the Japanese exiting the country throughout the summer of 1922, panic swept through the White Russian community. As the Red Army, thinly disguised as the army of the Far Eastern Republic, approached, thousands of Russians fled abroad to escape the new régime.[2] The army of the Far Eastern Republic retook Vladivostok on 25 October 1922, effectively bringing the Russian Civil War to a close.


With the Civil War finally over, Soviet Russia absorbed the Far Eastern Republic on 15 November 1922.[3] The government of the Far Eastern Republic dissolved itself and transferred all its authority and territory to the Bolshevik government in Moscow.[7]


Japan retained the northern half of Sakhalin Island until 1925, ostensibly as compensation for the massacre of about 700 civilians and soldiers at the Japanese garrison at Nikolaevsk-na-Amure in January 1920.[4] This "compensatory" motive for holding the territory was belied by the fact that Japanese retaliation for the actions of the Russian partisans had taken between two and three times as many Russian lives.[4]



Territory and resources




Territory of the Far Eastern Republic in 1922.


The Far Eastern Republic consisted of four provinces of the former Russian empire—Trans-Baikal, Amur, the Maritime Province, and the northern half of Sakhalin island.[1] Primarily, it represented the boundaries of the regions of Transbaikal and Outer Manchuria. The frontiers of the short-lived nation followed the western coastline of Lake Baikal along the northern borders of Mongolia and Manchuria to the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk.


The total area of the Far Eastern Republic was reckoned at approximately 730,000 square miles (1,900,000 km2) and its population at about 3.5 million people.[1] Of these an estimated 1.62 million were ethnic Russians and just over 1 million were of Asian extraction, with family lineages originating in China, Japan, Mongolia, and Korea.[1]


The Far Eastern Republic was an area of substantial mineral wealth, including territory which produced about one-third of the entire Russian output of gold as well as that country's only source of domestically produced tin.[1] Other mineral reserves of the Far Eastern Republic included zinc, iron, and coal.[1]


The fishing industry of the former Maritime Province was substantial, with a total catch exceeding that of Iceland and featuring ample stocks of herring, salmon, and sturgeon.[1] The Republic also boasted extensive forestry resources, including over 120 million acres (490,000 km2) of harvestable pine, fir, cedar, poplar, and birch.[1]



Chairmen of the Government (heads of state)




  • Alexander Krasnoshchyokov 6 April 1920 – December 1921


  • Nikolay Matveyev December 1921 – 15 November 1922



Chairmen of the Council of Ministers (Prime Ministers)




  • Alexander Krasnoshchyokov 6 April 1920 – November 1920


  • Boris Shumyatsky November 1920 – April 1921


  • Pyotr Nikiforov 8 May 1921 – December 1921


  • Nikolay Matveyev December 1921 – 14 November 1922


  • Pyotr Kobozev 14 November 1922 – 15 November 1922



Prominent people born in the Far Eastern Republic



  • Yul Brynner, actor


See also




  • Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War

  • American Expeditionary Force Siberia

  • Postage stamps and postal history of the Far Eastern Republic

  • Siberian Intervention

  • Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic

  • Priamur electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917)



Footnotes





  1. ^ abcdefgh "The Far Eastern Republic," Russian Information and Review, vol. 1, no. 10 (Feb. 15, 1922), pp. 232–233.


  2. ^ abcdef Alan Wood, "The Revolution and Civil War in Siberia," in Edward Acton, Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev, and William G. Rosenberg (eds.), Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997; pp. 716–717.


  3. ^ abcdefg George Jackson and Robert Devlin (eds.), Dictionary of the Russian Revolution. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989; pp. 223–225.


  4. ^ abc N.G.O. Pereira, White Siberia: The Politics of Civil War. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996; pg. 153.


  5. ^ Pereira, White Siberia, pg. 152.


  6. ^ Pereira, White Siberia, pg. 155.


  7. ^ abcd Pereira, White Siberia, pg. 156.




Further reading




  • A Short Outline of the History of the Far Eastern Republic. Washington, DC: Special Delegation of the Far Eastern Republic to the United States of America, 1922.

  • Alan Wood, Russia's Frozen Frontier: A History of Siberia and the Russian Far East 1581–1991 London: A&C Black, 2011. .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
    ISBN 9780340971246.

  • Canfield F. Smith, Vladivostok Under Red and White Rule: Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Russian Far East, 1920–1922. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975.

  • Jamie Bisher, White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian. Routledge, 2005.
    ISBN 9780714656908.

  • John Albert White, The Siberian Intervention. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1950.

  • Richard K. Debo, Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918–1921. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press, 1992.
    ISBN 9780773562851.


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