ABSTRACT
At the start of August 1918 it looked as if the Green side in Russia’s Red versus Green civil war had overcome the military problems caused by the mutiny of the Czechoslovak Legion and the premature Yaroslavl uprising. Most of the Komuch members present were hostile to the Omsk government, insisting that it challenged the position of Komuch as the voice of the Constituent Assembly, the representative body of all Russians. At the core of the problem lay the long-standing disunity within the Socialist Revolutionary Party. The Union for the Regeneration of Russia (URR) delegation arrived in Samara shortly after the Siberian government in Omsk had announced its independence. As the delegations gathered for the Chelyabinsk State Conference on 23 August 1918, the URR and the Allies began to reap the rewards of their hard work; it was in most ways their show.
