Editing History of Latvia (section)

===Iskolat===
On July 5, 1917, the [[Russian Provisional Government]] recognized the elected Land councils of Vidzeme and Kurzeme. Encouraged by the liberalism of the Provisional Government, Latvians put forward proposals which envisioned a broad local autonomy. On August 12, 1917, Latvian organizations jointly asked the Provisional Government in Petrograd for autonomy and self-determination. During a Congress from August 11–12 (July 29–30, Old Style) in Riga, the left-wing Social Democrats, heavily influenced by the Bolsheviks, established the [[Iskolat]] government - named for the "Executive Committee of the Council of Workers, Soldiers and Landless Deputies of Latvia" ({{langx |ru| Исполнительный комитет совета рабочих, солдатских и безземельных депутатов Латвии | translit = Ispolnitel'nyj komitet rabochikh, soldatskikh i bezzemel'niykh deputatov Latvii}}).

When the German Army occupied Riga on September 3, 1917, Iskolat retreated to [[Vidzeme]], where it assumed executive powers. The so-called Iskolat Republic existed from November 21, 1917, until March 3, 1918. Under German attacks it evacuated to [[Cēsis]], then to [[Valka]]. It disbanded in March 1918 after the [[Brest-Litovsk treaty]] of March 3, 1918 assigned the Latvian lands (except [[Latgale]]) to Germany.