Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia

Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia

The Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia or Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus (SSRB) ( _be. Савецкая Сацыялiстычная Рэспублiка Беларусь _ru. Социалистическая Советская Республика Белоруссия, ССРБ) was an early republic in the historical territory of Belarusians after the collapse of the Russian Empire as a result of the October Revolution.

First establishment

The first time it was established by Bolsheviks on January 1, 1919 in Smolensk when the Red Army entered Belarusian lands following the retreated German army, which had been occupying the territory as a consequence of the World War I. The SSRB replaced the German puppet state Belarusian National Republic created as part of German plan of Mitteleuropa.

The head of the state was Zmicier Zhylunovich (a Belarusian writer better known as Ciška Hartny, later repressed by Stalin). It consisted of Smolensk, Vitebsk, Mogilev, Minsk, Grodno, and Vilna Governorates.

It was considered by Bolsheviks to be a buffer republic. In a month it was disbanded. Smolensk, Vitebsk and Mogilev provinces were included into the RSFSR, the rest was used to form the another buffer republic, Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, known as Litbel.

econd establishment

The republic under the same name was re-established on July 31, 1920. However in traditional Soviet historiography it has been referred to as Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR), its name after the incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1922.

A number of Bolsheviks strongly opposed the re-establishment of SSRB arguing that there is no Belarusian nation, that Belarusian language is a dialect of Russian language, and that Belarusian culture is identical to the Russian one.

Eventually, the SSRB was re-established as a political move in the context of the Polish-Soviet War, in a minuscule territory of 52,400 km² made of 6 "uyezds" of Minsk Governorate, the rest of the Belarusian lands remaining split between Poland and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR).

References

* [http://www.belarus.by/ru/belarus/history/6/4/ First establishment of SSRB]
* [http://www.belarus.by/ru/belarus/history/6/6/index.php Second establishment of SSRB]
* [http://icpo-vad.tripod.com/const-ssrb.html The 1920 SSRB Constitution]


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