Central Rada

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The Central Rada was the revolutionary Ukrainian parliament that led the country’s national movement and proclaimed the creation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic during 1917–1918.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical institution
legislative body
political organization
revolutionary parliament
appliesToJurisdiction Ukraine
chairperson Mykhailo Hrushevsky
country Ukraine
dissolved 1918
establishedBy Ukrainian cultural organizations
Ukrainian military representatives
Ukrainian political parties
followedBy General Secretariat of Ukraine
surface form: Directorate of Ukraine
governmentType revolutionary representative assembly
hasPart Little Rada
historicalPeriod Russian Revolution
surface form: Russian Revolution of 1917

World War I
inception 1917
languageOfWorkOrName Ukrainian
leader Mykhailo Hrushevsky
legalForm parliamentary body
locatedIn Kyiv
Ukrainian People’s Republic
namedAfter rada (Ukrainian word for council)
notableMember Borys Martos
Dmytro Doroshenko
Isaak Mazepa
Mykola Mikhnovsky
Pavlo Khrystiuk
Serhiy Yefremov
Symon Petliura
Volodymyr Chekhivsky
Volodymyr Vynnychenko
opposedBy Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolsheviks

Russian Provisional Government
politicalAlignment Ukrainian nationalism
democratic socialism
replacedBy Hetmanate of Pavlo Skoropadsky
Hetmanate of Pavlo Skoropadsky
surface form: Ukrainian State (Hetmanate)
role acted as legislative authority of the Ukrainian People’s Republic
led Ukrainian national movement
served as Ukrainian revolutionary parliament
significantEvent First Universal of the Central Rada
Fourth Universal of the Central Rada
Second Universal of the Central Rada
Third Universal of the Central Rada
Ukrainian War of Independence
surface form: Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921

proclamation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic
territorialClaim Ukrainian lands of the former Russian Empire

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tryzub reintroducedBy Central Rada
subject surface form: Tryzub
this entity surface form: Central Rada of the Ukrainian People’s Republic
Rada precededBy Central Rada
this entity surface form: Central Council of Ukraine
Council of People’s Ministers subordinateTo Central Rada
this entity surface form: Directorate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic
Mykhailo Hrushevsky memberOf Central Rada
this entity surface form: Ukrainian Central Rada
Symon Petliura memberOf Central Rada
this entity surface form: Central Rada of the Ukrainian People’s Republic