Great Belarus Council Central Belarus Military Council Executive Committee of the Council of the First All-Belarusian Congress Kingdom of Poland Polish Main Military Committee The October Revolution and the Establishment of Belarusian Statehood,[1] Belarusian-Bolshevik conflict,[2] Conflict between the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress and Oblispolkom,[3] Bolshevik coup d'état in Belarus[4] — political and military confrontation between units in favour of the Great Belarusian Rada and subordinated to the Central Belarusian Military Rada (CWBR) on the one hand, and on the other hand the Bolshevik Red Guards detachments of the Western Region, Russian Socialist Republic in late 1917 and early 1918.

[1][5] The contemporary Polish-Belarusian historian Aleh Latyshonok uses several names for this period of history: the Belarusian-Bolshevik conflict and the Bolshevik coup in Belarus.

[citation needed] In early December 1917, contradictions arose between the Belarusian nationalist and the local Bolshevik leadership, which seized power in the region with the help of the Western Front's rebel units.

[6] On December 5, there was a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars of the Western Region and the Western Front, at which the Latvian Kārlis Landers made a report about the so-called "hostile activity of the Belarusian nationalists", at this meeting it was decided to dissolve the Central Belarusian Military Rada, and its figures were arrested and tried by the revolutionary tribunal.

[7] At the same time, on 4–5 December, the CBWR's second plenary meeting was held, and student Tomasz Gryb was elected as a deputy instead of D.

The BRC's activists tried to take the management of the Belarusian national movement out of the GBR's hands as most of them were members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

Initially, the BRC planned to convene its All-Belarusian Congress on 15 December in Rogachev in Mogilev province, for which they received permission from Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

A few days later, due to internal struggles, Symon Rak-Michajłoŭski was replaced by another member of the Central Belarusian Military Rada, Yan Sereda.

[16] The organisations of the Belarusian military in Mogilev province demanded from the Bolsheviks to disband the Polish units being formed.

The soldiers received support, advice and instructions only from the junior officers of the CBWR and the leadership of its political department.

The executive committee of the CCER dismissed General Kandratovich from the leadership and Colonel Konstantin Ezovitov was appointed instead.

[23] The CBRN agreed to fulfil the order and integrate the fighters into the 289th Regiment, expecting to receive supplies and weapons.

[27] At the meeting, chaired by P. Aliaksiuk, the current demands for the creation of Belarusian military units and their transfer to Belarus were confirmed.

[30]"The dispersal of the congress was considered by the delegates as "an act of abuse of the Belarusian people, committed through the influx of rapist aliens.

The dispersal of the First All-Belarusian Congress, the decisions of which became a political reference point in the further development of the Belarusian national movement, had many consequences.

[33] А. Myasnikov and K. Lander organised a victory parade in Minsk on 20 December, but they did not take further action as it exceeded their authority.

[citation needed] At the end of 1917 Belarusian units were established in Vitibsk, Smolensk, Orsha, Luninets, Odessa, as well as the 4th Belorussian Regiment on the Rumanian front.