Ukrainian Communist Party
political party in Ukraine
The Ukrainian Communist Party (Ukrainian: Українська комуністична партія, romanized: Ukrainska komunistychna partiia) was an oppositional political party in Soviet Ukraine, from 1920 until 1925. Its followers were known as Ukapists (укапісти, ukapisty), from the initials UKP.
History
USDLP independents
The UKP was an offshoot party of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party (SD's) created in by former members of the Social-Democrats, who in January 1919 had organized as the group of the independent Social-Democrats, USDLP independents. It opposed Russian domination within the future envisaged Socialist order as well as Russian domination of Republics formed within the territory of the former Russian empire. It condemned the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (CP(b)U), criticizing it in its newspaper, Chervonyy Prapor for being subject to the Russian Bolshevik party in Moscow.
Following the capture of Kyiv by the Bolsheviks, "independents" refused to leave the capital and agreed to enter the Ukrainian Soviet government on the conditions, that Ukrainian SSR would be recognized as an independent state, and Ukrainian as its official language. After getting a refusal, they entered the opposition to new authorities together with SR and remaining SD's. The coalition proclaimed as its goal the creation of free local councils representing the working classes.
In May 1919 a delegation consisting of four SR members and one representative of the "independents" arrived to Ternopil, where the Ukrainian People's Republic government was based at the time. As a result of negotiations, three SR members were included into the Council of People's Ministers. Left without government positions, "independents" then turned to the idea of organizing an anti-Bolshevik uprising in Ukraine, allying themselves with the forces of Otaman Zelenyi.
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