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The result was redirect to Provisional Siberian Government (Omsk). (non-admin closure) LlamaAl (talk) 00:01, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Siberian Republic[edit]

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I am scientist, I live in Novosibirsk, and history of Siberia is very interesting for me. I claim, that there wasn't any "Siberian Republic" in history. Two times there existed Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia, but neither first, nor second claimed Siberia as independent country. Both provisional goverments claimed themselves as goverment of part of RUSSIA, and planned to extend its power to the whole Russia. Maybe it was misinterpreted by some users, who considered declaration of organisation the Siberian Provisional Goverment as "Declaratio of Siberia Independence". --Slb nsk (talk) 10:14, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Ya can't redirect to a disambiguation page, can ya? Isn't that a double-redirect? I'm going to dig through a few books to see if I can find a definitive answer here. Carrite (talk) 22:18, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect per nom. There seems no reason for a separate article, barring an unjustified POV claim for a republic's existence, so redirection is appropriate. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:37, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to Provisional Siberian Government (Omsk). Okay, this is not as hard as it seemed; two articles, one on the Vladivostok Government and one on the Omsk Government, which were inexplicably named after the obscure figures who nominally headed them. I've boldly renamed. It is correct that this is a fork; I own a couple books by Shlapentokh but not this one so can't really see what exactly the cited source says — but the notion that there are two "encyclopedic" Siberian governments of the Civil War period is correct, I think. I'll keep puttering around with these pieces a little. Carrite (talk) 22:39, 22 February 2013 (UTC) Last edit: Carrite (talk) 23:09, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to Provisional Siberian Government (Omsk). Admittedly I know relatively little about Siberian political history, but I did a bit of investigation and discovered that some sources do refer to a "Siberian Republic" which existed in 1918. However, upon skimming the context of these sources, it would appear that the Provisional Siberian Government (Omsk) is the subject of discussion. For anyone interested in working on the article, here are some sources I encountered: [1], [2], [3], [4]. --Mike Agricola (talk) 22:59, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I agree that this relates to the short-lived Omsk Provisional Government for the short interval of time before Kolchak (a White general and military strongman) took charge of the merged governments based in Omsk in the fall of 1918. Carrite (talk) 23:09, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Your fourth link there, the book by Smele, looks to be cutting edge — probably the best single source on the topic. There are dozens of books on the Russian Civil War which would touch on the topic, of course. Carrite (talk) 23:55, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:21, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:21, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The first work your mentioned was made in my university, hence it was easy to me to see the original text in russian :-) Russian text clearly says that "there was a PROCESS of creating Siberian republik, but it was terminated: those, who could make this, prefer to restore non-divided state of Russia". --Slb nsk (talk) 06:59, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment But it was 4 months in 1918. To quote the original SIBERIAN NATIONALISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN THE REGION (March 1917 - November 1918)) - The future historian must unambiguously be noted that in 1918 there was an independent Siberian republic - recalled GK Gins [26. Pp. 121]. Vyacheslav84 (talk) 13:40, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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