Yakut revolt (1918)

Yakut revolt
	Part of the Russian Civil War
Date	February 1918 – 1 July 1918
Location	Yakutia
Result	Soviet victory
Territorial; changes	Yakutia defeated by Soviets
Belligerents
Russian Soviet Republic Irkutsk Oblast;	Yakutia
Commanders and leaders
A. S. Rydzinski	V. V. Popov; P. A. Bondaletov

The Yakut revolt of 1917-18 was the rejection of Bolshevik rule by the Yakut people of far eastern Russia during the early stages of the Russian Civil War, culminating in the establishment of a short-lived independent Yakut republic in 1918.

Course of events

After the February Revolution of 1917 in Russia, ethnic Yakuts began politically organizing and forming their own local committees. Following the Bolshevik seizure of power during the October Revolution of 1917, the Yakut committees were merged into an anti-Bolshevik autonomous regional administration, the "Yakut Committee to Safeguard the Revolution". After the formal proclamation of the Russian Soviet Republic in January 1918, the Committee declared the independence of Yakutia in reaction to these events. This independent government was overthrown on July 1[1] by the intervention of Soviet troops from Irkutsk.[2]

Later, in 1921, the Yakuts and White Russians would organize an anti-Soviet revolt in the region, which also ended in failure.

References

"Yakutia-from 1917".
James Forsyth (1994). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990. Cambridge University Press. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-0-521-47771-0.

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[1] "Yakutia-from 1917".

[Forsyth1994-2] James Forsyth (1994). A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990. Cambridge University Press. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-0-521-47771-0.