 On 20 November 1917 the Central Council of Ukraine issued its Third (Universal) Decree in which it announced the date for the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly as 9 January 1918.On 29 November 1917, the Central Council finally adopted the Law "about elections to the Constituent Assembly of Ukrainian People's Republic".In order to activate the Bolshevik organizations and increase their control over the councils in Ukraine, the Bolshevik leadership considered it necessary to create an All-Ukrainian Bolshevik center.