Amur Socialist Soviet Republic
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Amur Socialist Soviet Republic Амурская социалистическая советская республика | |||||||||||
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| Status | Republic | ||||||||||
| Capital | Blagoveshchensk | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Russian | ||||||||||
| Religion | Secular state | ||||||||||
| Government | Soviet republic | ||||||||||
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• Declaration of Independence | April 10, 1918 | ||||||||||
• Invasion of the interventionist troops and the White Guards formations. The Amur Labour Socialist Republic ceased to exist | September 18, 1918 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Amur Oblast | ||||||||||
The Amur Soviet Socialist Republic (also Amur Labour Socialist Republic, or Amur Socialist Federative Republic)[1] (April 10 – September 18, 1918) was a territorial entity proclaimed on the territory of the Amur Oblast in 1918, formally part of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.[2] The capital was the city of Blagoveshchensk.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, a large–scale struggle for power broke out in Blagoveshchensk between the Blagoveshchensk Council, the City Duma and the Regional Zemstvo Council.
On January 26, 1918, the Blagoveshchensk Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies announced that they had taken power in the city into their own hands, and already on February 25, 1918, the 4th Regional Congress of Peasant Delegates held in Blagoveshchensk and the Blagoveshchensk Council announced the transfer of power in the Amur Region to the Soviets. Zemstvos and city self–government were abolished.[3]
From March 6 to March 13, 1918, the Zemstvo Council and the regional Cossack government organized a rebellion against the Soviet government, led by Ataman Gamov, but were brutally suppressed, which ensured the restoration of the power of the Soviets.
On April 10, 1918, at the 5th Peasant Congress, a resolution was adopted on the organization of the Amur Labour Socialist Republic – an integral part of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.[2]