Chita Republic

Chita Republic
Читинская республика
1905–1906
Location of Chita Oblast in Russia
Location of Chita Oblast in Russia
CapitalChita
Common languagesRussian
GovernmentSoviet republic
Chairman of the Council of Workers' Militias 
• 1905-1906
Anton Kostiushko-Voliuzhanich
LegislatureSoviet of Soldiers' and Cossacks' Deputies
Historical era1905 Russian Revolution
• Established
22 November 1905
• Proclaimed
21 December 1905
• Disestablished
22 January 1906
CurrencyRuble
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Russian Empire
Russian Empire
Today part ofRussia

The Chita Republic (Russian: Читинская республика) was a short-lived workers' republic based in Chita from the end of 1905 to the beginning of 1906. Chita, a city in eastern Siberia, Russia, and a place of exile for early revolutionaries and combatants of the Russo-Japanese War, was a center for worker unrest in the early 1900s. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 armed revolutionaries under the leadership of the RSDLP headed by Viktor Kurnatovsky, Anton Kostiushko-Voliuzhanich, and Ivan Babushkin[1] organized themselves into a "Soviet of Soldiers' and Cossacks' Deputies" and took control over the city, declaring the Chita Republic in December 1905.[2]

  1. ^ Krupskaya, Nadezhda Konstantinovna (1933). Reminiscences of Lenin.
  2. ^ Trotsky, Leon (28 October 2016). "Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence". marxists.org. Retrieved 28 October 2016.