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Name: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Type: Polity

Start: 1919 AD

End: 1922 AD

Nation: ukraine

Parent: russia

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Was a Soviet Republic declared in Ukraine under the protection of the Russian SR. In the next 3 years it conquered most of Ukraine and was one of the founding Republics of the Soviet Union in 1922.

Establishment


  • March 1919: Declaration of the Ukrainian Soviet republic.
  • March 1919: Ukrainian Bolsheviks took Mykolaiv.
  • March 1919: Units of the 13th Red Army attacked from the Northwest and forced the depleted Volunteer battalions to retreat from Debaltsevo.
  • March 1919: Makhno (Communists) seized Berdyansk on March 15.
  • March 1919: Communist and Anarchis detachments seized Volnovakha.
  • March 1919: On March 20, the Red Army captured Donesk.
  • March 1919: Surprisingly, by the end of March the Ukrainian armies successfully conducted series of military operations liberating Sarny, Zhytomyr, Korosten, and threatening to take back Kiev.
  • March 1919: They Bolsheviks pushed the enemy towards the south and west of the Donetsk basin.
  • March 1919: Mariupol conquered by russia.
  • March 1919: Andrei Shkuro's White troops broke through the front of the Reds at Krindachyovka and took Debaltsevo.
  • April 1919: The Red 1st Zadneprovskaya division of Pavel Dybenko seized Melitopol, cutting the White Azov Front in two.
  • April 1919: By April 3 the Entente forces evacuated from Odessa.
  • April 1919: By the middle of April, the Bolsheviks defeated the army of the UNR and crossed the Novohrad-Volynsky-Shepetivka-Proskurov-Mogilev-Podolsky line.
  • May 1919: Lugansk conquered by South Russia (Whites).
  • May 1919: The Bolsheviks launched the offensive on May 14, and on the next day retook Lugansk.
  • May 1919: The Whites took Yenakiyevo.
  • May 1919: Shkuro's cavalry captured Donetsk (Yuzovka) and Avdeevka and the Kornilov division took Debaltsevo.
  • May 1919: Lugansk occupied by the Whites on 27 May.
  • June 1919: Russian general Denikin's troops took the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod.
  • August 1919: The Red Army, stretched thin by fighting on all fronts, was forced out of Kiev.
  • December 1919: The Red Army recaptured Kiev on 17 December.
  • Chronology


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    1. Russian Civil War


    Was a Civil War in Russia that involved varios factions but mainly the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Army in the core Russian territories, as well as a multitude of local secessionist states. At the end of war the Bolsheviks were victorious and established the Soviet Union.

    1.1.Ukrainian-Soviet War

    Was a conflict between Ukrainian nationalist forces and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. It also included a multitude of ethnical and local factions.

  • April 1920: Kiev Offensive: The Ukrainians led by Pilsudski struck on April 25, and captured Zhytomyr the following day.
  • June 1920: Kiev was evacuated and left to the Soviets.
  • November 1921: With the Second Winter Campaign, Korosten was captured by communist forces.

  • 1.2.South Russia 1919 campaign

    Was a military offensive by pro-White South Russia during the Russian Civil War.


    1.2.1.Battle for the Donbass

    Was a military campaign of the Russian Civil War in which White forces repulsed attacks of the Red Army on the Don Host Oblast and occupied the Donbass region.


    1.3.Polish-Soviet War

    Was a war between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the aftermath of World War I and during the Russian Civil War.

  • June 1920: Soviet forces under Yakir captured the Bila Tserkva.

  • 1.3.1.Battle of Warsaw

    Were a series of battles during the Polish-Soviet war that resulted in the defeat of the invading Russian SFSR.

  • March 1921: A ceasefire was signed between Poland and Soviet Russia on 12 October and went into effect on 18 October. Borders were settled in the Peace of Riga, signed in Riga on 18 March 1921.

  • 1.4.Evacuation of Crimea

    Was an event in the Russian Civil War, in which the pro-White Russian State evacuated over sea from the Crimean Peninsula, their last stronghold on the Southern Front, bringing an end to the fighting on that Front.

  • November 1920: The Evacuation of the Crimea was an event in the Russian Civil War, in which the Russian State evacuated over sea from the Crimean Peninsula, their last stronghold on the Southern Front, bringing an end to the fighting on that Front.

  • 2. Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics


    On 28 December 1922, a conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

  • December 1922: In 1922, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was admitted to the Soviet Union.

  • Disestablishment


  • December 1922: In 1922, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was admitted to the Soviet Union.
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