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The Kiev Arsenal January Uprising was a Bolshevik-organized armed workers' revolt which occurred in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv from January to February 1918 at the start of the Ukrainian War of Independence. In January 1918, elections were held to the Ukrainian People's Republic's Constituent Assembly, where the Bolsheviks won 10% of the vote; however, the elections were suspended due to the Red Army general Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko's occupation of left-bank Ukraine. That same month, the Kyivan Bolsheviks decided to launch their own uprising to support the invading Soviet forces, choosing the Arsenal Factory as the center of the communist uprising in the capital. On 18 January, Cossacks loyal to the Ukrainian government confiscated a great amount of weaponry from the factory and arrested several Bolshevik activists, and the government shut down the factory and the Bolshevik propaganda newspaper Golos Sotsial-Demokrata. On 28 January, the Bolsheviks instigated a protest at the factory and retrieved their confiscated weapons, and Syla Mishchenko decided to start the revolt immediately. The Red Guards of the Arsenal Factory and the Demiivka artillery factory rebelled on the morning of 29 January after the central government rejected the Kyivan council of workers' and soldiers' deputies' ultimatum to surrender. Most of the Ukrainian government units in the city refused to interfere,as the Central Rada had no influence over most of the military units, and only several platoons of Sich Riflemen and Free Cossacks supported the government. By 1 February, the Rada had re-established control over the city and asked the workers to end their strike, as it harmed the civilian population. The government promised several socioeconomic reforms in the future, and, the next day, Symon Petliura's troops entered the city. By 2 February, the revolt was extinguished apart from the Arsenal Factory. On 4 February, Petliura's troops stormed the factory after a bloody assault, and the Bolsheviks claimed that Petliura killed 300 of the arsenal's defenders in the factory yard. A day later, however, the Red Army assaulted the city, leading to the Battle of Kiev.

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