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Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly (Комитет членов Учредительного собрания (Комуч) in Russian, or Komitet chlenov Uchreditelnogo sobraniya (Komuch)), also known as Samarskaya uchredilka (if loosely translated, means "unauthorized self-establishment of power in Samara"), a counterrevolutionary "government", formed in Samara on June 8, 1918 after the Czech Legion had occupied the city. |
 | | Komuch proclaimed itself the highest authority in Russia, temporarily acting on behalf of the Constituent Assembly on the territory, occupied by the interventionists and the Whites, until the convocation of the new composition of the Assembly. |
 | | Initially, Komuch consisted of 5 esers - members of the Constituent Assemly, dissolved by the Soviets (V.K.Volsky - chairman, Ivan Brushvit, Prokopiy Klimushkin, Boris Fortunatov, Ivan Nesterov). |
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