THE ORGANIZATION OF UKRAINIAN CENTRAL RADA
In February, 1917 in Petrograd, as a result of armed uprising there was a coup d'etat. The Provisional Government formed by representatives of liberal bourgeois circles existed parallel to the Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. In Ukraine, alongside with the Provisional Government and the Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, there was another institution that rallied Ukrainian national-democratic forces. It was the Central Rada (CR). That social institution was established on March 7, 1917, in Kyiv on the initiative of a range of political and social organizations. M. Hrushev-skyi, a historian and public figure, was elected the Chairman of the Central Rada.
Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
The CR set the demands for Ukrainian autonomy, supp
