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Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly

Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly
Комитет членов Учредительного собрания
Komitet chlenov Uchreditelnogo sobraniya
1918
Capital Samara
Languages Russian
Government Republic
Chairman Vladimir Volsky
Historical era Russian Civil War
 •  Established June 8, 1918
 •  Disestablished November 3, 1918
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Provisional All-Russian Government

The Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly was a counterrevolutionary government that existed in Samara, Russia, during the Russian Civil War. It was formed on June 8, 1918, after the Czech Legion had occupied the city.

In Russian, the committee was called Комитет членов Учредительного собрания, transliterated as Komitet chlenov uchreditelnogo sobraniya. The initial consonants of the first and third words gave Комуч, transliterated as Komuch, as the shorthand name for the committee.

Komuch proclaimed itself the highest authority in Russia, temporarily acting on behalf of the Russian Constituent Assembly in the territory occupied by the interventionists and the White Movement until the convocation of a new Assembly. Initially, Komuch consisted of five Socialist-Revolutionaries – Vladimir Volsky (chairman), Ivan Brushvit, Prokopiy Klimushkin, Boris Fortunatov and Ivan Nesterov) – former members of the Constituent Assembly that had been dissolved by the Bolsheviks. Two other members, N. Shmelev and V. Abramov, are named in a declaration issued by Komuch that reinstated freedoms and set forth fundamental principles. Its executive body was the "Council of Department Heads" led by Yevgeny Rogovsky.

The Committee grew in size as members, mainly Socialist-Revolutionaries, of the former Constituent Assembly travelled to Samara. By the end of September 1918, it numbered 96 members.

Having seized power with the help of the Czech Legion, Komuch announced the "reinstatement" of various democratic freedoms. An eight-hour working day was established and plant and factory committees (fabzavkomy, from "fabrichno-zavodskiye komitety") and trade unions were permitted, as were conferences and congresses of workers and peasants. Soviet decrees were abrogated and all industry and financial establishments returned to their former owners, along with the freedom to pursue private enterprise. City dumas, zemstva and other municipal institutions were also reinstated.


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