Iskolat (, ), or formally the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers, Soldiers, and the Landless in Latvia, was the governing body in the territory of Latvia that was under control of the pro-Communist Red Latvian Riflemen in 1917âÂÂ1918.
During the Russian Revolution the Iskolat was established in Riga on 29âÂÂ30 July 1917 O.S. (August 11 â 12, 1917, N.S.), at the initiative of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party, then controlled by the Bolsheviks with the purpose of carrying out the Bolshevik coup within the territory of Latvia not occupied by Germany. When Germans occupied Riga, the Iskolat moved to CÃÂsis and later to Valka, where it took power over the Valka district, disbanding the organs established by the Russian Provisional Government.
On December 17, 1917 the Congress of Soviets of Latvia convened in Valmiera and elected as the chairman of Iskolat, who was later replaced by Fricis Rozià Âà ¡ in 1918.
Iskolat fled to Moscow after German forces occupied Latvia in February 1918 and was disbanded in March 1918.
Soviet historiography considers the Iskolat to have been the first Soviet government of sovereign Latvia between December 1917 and February 1918.