Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets
# Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets

Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (Ukrainian: Другий Всеукраїнський з'їзд Рад) was a congress of soviets (councils) of workers, peasants, Red-army-men deputies that took place in Katerynoslav (Dnipro) on March 17-19, 1918.

## Composition

There were 964 delegates. By the end of congress number of delegates increased to 1,250.

* Bolsheviks - 401
* Bolshevik supporters - 27
* Left SRs (Russia and Ukraine, with supporters) - 414
* USDLP (left wing) - 13
* Unaffiliated - 82
* others - 25

The presidium composition was: Skripnik, Ivanov, Kviring, Gamarin[k], Terletsky, Odoyevsky, Boichenko, Tkachinsky, Serdiuk, Medvedev.

* Bolsheviks - 4
* Left SRs (Russia) - 5
* Left SRs (Ukraine) - 1

## Agenda

* current moment
   * deposition towards the Central Council of Ukraine
   * deposition towards war and peace
* organization of armed forces
* Ukraine and Russian SFSR
* government report
* land and finance issues
* election to the Central Executive Committee
* others

## Decisions

Despite the sharp interfactional struggle all Bolshevik's resolution have passed.

* the congress approved the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
* the congress declared independence of Ukraine and also announced that relationships of the Soviet republics will remain within the limits identified earlier
* (current moment) the congress condemned the policy of Central Council of Ukraine demanding withdrawal of the Austria-Germany troops from the territory of Ukraine and calls were placed to combat the widespread establishment of Soviet power. Representatives of left wing Ukrainian parties were proposing to seek a compromise with the Central Council of Ukraine with aim to consolidate national forces, but the majority did not support their propositions
* the congress passed a law about socialization of land that was adopted at the 3rd All-Russian Congress of Soviets, resolutions "About political system", decrees on 8-hour workday and workers' control, about organization of the Red Army of Ukraine

The congress elected 102 members to the Central Executive Committee (CVK):

* Bolsheviks - 47
* SRs (Russia and Ukraine) - 49
* left USDLP - 5
* Lewica - 1

Volodymyr Zatonsky was elected Chairman of the CVK.

