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Russian-Ukrainian Relations, 1917-1918: A Conflict Over Crimea and the Black Sea Fleet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Igor B. Torbakov
Igor B. Torbakov*
Affiliation:
Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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The first disagreements between Russia's Provisional Government and the Ukrainian Central Rada emerged in the spring and summer of 1917, right after the proclamation of the Rada's First Universal and the formation of the Ukrainian executive body, the General Secretariat. The arrival in Kiev in July 1917 of the Russian governmental delegation, consisting of Alexander Kerensky, Irakly Tsereteli and Mikhail Tereshchenko, and the attempts to work out a compromise—which found their embodiment in the Second Universal—led, in fact, to the political crisis in Petrograd. The majority of the Kadet ministers refused to approve the results of the negotiations in Kiev and tendered their resignations.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 679 - 689
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Copyright © 1996 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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