Authorized representatives of the Council of Lithuania and their activities in Ukraine in 1918

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Aukščiausioji Lietuvos Taryba Ukrainoje; Juozas Jankevičius; Kijevas; Kijevas, Juozas Jankevičius; Lietuvos Taryba; Lietuvos Taryba atstovai Ukrainoje; Ukraina (Ukraine); Vilnius; Council of Lithuania; Juozas Jankevicius; Kyiv; Supreme Lithuanian Council in Ukraine; Vilnius.

ENThe representation of the Council of Lithuania in Ukraine is important due to several aspects. First, the way authorized representatives in Ukraine were appointed by the Council of Lithuania reveals the overall diversity of the process of appointment of the authorised representatives of the Council of Lithuania at that time (authorizing a member of the Council of Lithuania; a Lithuanian citizen having arrived in Vilnius from abroad; a person domiciled abroad). Second, we can clearly see how the status of authorized representatives changed, i.e. the countryís chief representatives rather than those of the Council of Lithuania were already delegated as of 22 July 1918 (e.g. in Moscow, Petrograd, Kyiv). Third, the study on the representation of the Council of Lithuania in Ukraine (1918) is important as it reveals the overall process of representation of the Council of Lithuania abroad from 21 September 1917 to 11 November 1918 and its specificity in the states newly established on the ruins of the former Russian Empire. [Extract, p. 58]