on , talks took place between sergei bakinsky (real name – ludwig bernheim) representing the kiev bolsheviks, mykola porsh representing the central council of ukraine, and joseph stalin (real name – joseph dzhugashvili), the newly-appointed () russian people's commissar on national affairs. stalin, at the behest of the government of the russian soviet federative socialist republic, immediately recommended that action should be taken to assemble such a congress. he also insisted that power should not remain with the central council of ukraine but should instead be transferred to the regional congress of councils (soviets) and to local councils (soviets). as a result of the proposition put forward by the bolsheviks, the preparation for the assembly of the all-ukrainian congress of soviets was undertaken by the regional executive committee of councils of workers', peasants, and soldiers' deputies of the southwestern krai that was created in the spring of 1917 in kiev.