Provisional All-Russian Government

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Provisional All-Russian Government

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Department overview
Formed	September 23, 1918 (1918-09-23)
Preceding Department	Russian Provisional Government
Dissolved	November 18, 1918 (1918-11-18)
Superseding agency	Omsk Government
Jurisdiction	Russia
Headquarters	Ufa (until 9 October), Omsk
Child Department	Council of Ministers

The Provisional All-Russian Government (PA-RG), informally known as The Directory, The Ufa Directory, or The Omsk Directory,^[1] was a short-lived government during the Russian Civil War, formed on 23 September 1918 at the State Conference in Ufa as a result of a forced and extremely unstable compromise of various anti-Communist forces in eastern Russia. It was dissolved two months later after the coup, which had brought Admiral Alexander Kolchak to power in Communist-free areas of eastern Russia.

The Government was formed from the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly (mainly SR and KD members based in Samara) and from the Provisional Siberian Government (consisted mainly of regional politicians and rightist officers and based in Omsk). The two régimes had previously failed to work effectively together, with rivalry leading to a customs war and to numerous border disputes.