 The proposition that was put forward by the Kiev Bolsheviks supported the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks) and the government of Soviet Russia.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.