In November 1917, congresses of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies of the Western Oblast, the 3rd Congress of Peasants' Deputies of the Minsk and Vilna Provinces and the 2nd Congress of the Armies of the Western Front were held in Minsk, the executive committee of the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies of the Western Region and Front and the Council of People's Commissars were formed Western region. The Great Belarusian Rada did not recognize the authority of the executive committee of the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies of the Western Region and the Front, considering it as an exclusively front–line organ. The First All–Belarusian Congress, convened by the Great Belarusian Rada, was dispersed by the Bolsheviks. In January – February 1918, the anti–Bolshevik uprising of the Polish Corps of General Dovbor–Musnitsky was suppressed, and power in the large cities of Belarus passed to the Bolsheviks.