Provisional All-Russian Government

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Provisional All-Russian Government^[a]

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Department overview
Formed	September 23, 1918 (1918-09-23)
Preceding Department	Russian Provisional Government
Dissolved	November 18, 1918 (1918-11-18)
Superseding Department	Russian State Government
Jurisdiction	Russian State
Headquarters	Ufa (to October 9, 1918) Omsk
Ministers responsible	Pyotr Vologodsky, prime minister Vladimir Vinogradov, deputy prime minister

The Provisional All-Russian Government, informally known as the Directory, the Ufa Directory, or the Omsk Directory,^[a] was a short-lived government of the Russian State during the Russian Civil War, formed on 23 September 1918 at the State Conference in Ufa as a result of a forced and extremely unstable compromise of various anti-Communist forces in eastern Russia. It was dissolved two months later after the coup, which had brought Admiral Alexander Kolchak to power in Communist-free areas of eastern Russia. It was meant to be a continuation of the original Russian Provisional Government that was overthrown during the October Revolution in 1917.

The Government was formed from the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly, mainly Socialist Revolutionaries and Kadets based in Samara, and from the Provisional Siberian Government of regional politicians and rightist officers and based in Omsk. The two regimes had previously failed to work effectively together, with rivalry leading to a customs war and to numerous border disputes. In November 1918 a military coup by right-wing Kadets, officers, and Cossacks, with some support from the Allies, overthrew the Provisional All-Russian Government and appointed Admiral Kolchak as the Supreme Leader of Russia. Kolchak, who had been the Minister of War in the government for two weeks, was supported by the coup faction to create a new government that would have no SR influence.^[1]

Despite its problems, the Provisional All-Russian Government was recognized by all White Russian factions east of the Urals and also established a unified foreign policy. It had the support of Russia's former diplomatic missions abroad. But the government's Directory did not have a large administrative state, and continued to rely on the institutions of the former Provisional Siberian Government in Omsk, which was also where the Allied powers set up their diplomatic and military offices.^[2]

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