INSTITUTE OF KYIV PROVINCE COMMISSIONER (MARCH – NOVEMBER OF 1917): TO THE HISTORY OF THE UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION (1917 – 1921)

Ihor КOLIADA; Kateryna IUDOVA-ROMANOVA; Martynas PETRIKAS

doi:10.24919/2519-058x.17.218192

Authors

Ihor КOLIADA PhD hab. (History), Professor, Departments of Teaching Methods of Social Disciplines and Gender Policy of National Pedagogical Drahomanov University,
Kateryna IUDOVA-ROMANOVA PhD in Art Studies, Associate Professor, Professor Department of Performing Arts of Luhansk State Academy of Culture and Arts,
Martynas PETRIKAS Doctor of Art Studies, Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow and Vice-dean for studies Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058x.17.218192

Keywords:

Kyiv Provincial Commissioner, the Provisional Government, Kyiv Province, Count O. Ignatiev, M. Sukovkin

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to elucidate of the place and role of the institute of Kyiv provincial commissioner in the system of a local government in Ukraine under conditions of the revolutionary events of 1917; to characterize the normative legal bases of the institution of Kyiv provincial commissioner activity. Having used the methodological basis of the research: the dialectical, axiological, historical philosophical, system structural, functional, formal legal, comparative legal and historical legal methods, the problem of transformation of imperial institutions of autocratic power in Ukraine during the Ukrainian revolution has been researched and generalized on the basis of the new archival materials (1917 – 1921). The Scientific Novelty. The authors have studied the socio-political conditions, which prevailed in Ukraine at the beginning of 1917; have elucidated the development of events in connection with the reform of local government institutions; have described the legal acts, which regulated the power transition, in particular, in Kyiv province; have highlighted the political and legal status of the new institution of power – Kyiv provincial commissioner of the Provisional Government; have provided unique biographical information about the last imperial governor, Count Olexiy Ignatiev, and his successor, the first Kyiv provincial commissioner, the head of Kyiv provincial zemstvo, Mykhailo Sukovkin. The Conclusions. In the article it has been asserted that the introduction of the institute of Kyiv Provincial Commissioner of the Provisional Government, whose legal status was regulated by both current imperial legislation and new legal acts of the Provisional Government, transformed the system of the imperial local authorities, which took place peacefully. The introduction of the institute of Kyiv Provincial Commissioner had to ensure the continuity of power, to prevent the destructive processes of the state government mechanisms, to preserve the territorial integrity and governance of the regions of the former empire. However, under conditions of the growing national liberation movement, the newly appointed leader could not keep the situation under his control, which under conditions of further development of the Ukrainian revolution put on the agenda the change in the model of a public administration and local government.

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