According to Chamberlin, "The first sign of a swing to the right was the replacement of the Commissariat, which had been guided in its activities by the programme of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, by a group of Ministers of the Derber Government, headed by Pyotr Vologodsky, a jurist with the reputation of a moderate liberal."

The PGAS in Vladivostok and new PSG in Omsk each refused to recognize the other, and each claimed to be the sole government of Siberia.

The generals of the Siberian Army deferred to the Vologodskii government in Omsk, however, resulting in the marginalization of the Vladivostok regime.

Chamberlin states, "Vologodsky went to Eastern Siberia and obtained the abdication of the phantom Derber Cabinet in Vladivostok.

"[2]: 21 During November of 1918, a coup occurred in Omsk and installed Alexander Kolchak as the Supreme Ruler of Russia.