Galician Soviet Socialist Republic

Galician Soviet Socialist Republic

Infobox Former Country
native_name = Galician Soviet Socialist Republic
common_name = Galicia
continent = Europe
region = Eastern Europe
country = Poland
p1 = Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
flag_p1 = Flag of Galicia (Central Europe).svg
s1 = Second Polish Republic
flag_s1 = Flag of Poland.svg





era = Interwar period
year_start = 1920
year_end = 1920
date_start = July 8
date_end = September 21
capital = Ternopil
government_type = Socialist Republic
leader1 = Volodymyr Zatonsky
title_leader = Chairman

Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (Galician SSR) existed from July 8, 1920 to September 21, 1920 during the Polish-Soviet War within the area of the South-Western front of the Red Army.

With the collapse of Austria-Hungary following World War I in November 1918, western Podillia was included in the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, but came under Polish control in 1919 which was confirmed in the PolandUkrainian People's Republic agreement in April 1920. Podolia was briefly occupied in 1920 by Soviets (the Galician SSR) during the course of the Polish-Soviet War.

The Galician SSR was established and managed by the Galician Revolutionary Committee (Halrevkom), a provisional government created under the patronage of Soviet Russia. The government was seated in Ternopil in East Galicia with Volodymyr Zatonsky (Vladimir Zatonsky) as its president. The Halrevkom established an administrative structure, a Galician Red Army, a currency, and an education system. The national languages (of equal status) were declared to be Polish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish.

Halrevkom did not control the important area of East Galicia: Lviv area with its oilfields of Boryslav and Drohobych.

The Galician SSR quickly disappeared. The Peace of Riga of 1921 confirmed inclusion of the whole of Galicia into Poland.

A similar, but less elaborate activity, of communist Polrevkom, was related to the North-Western front of the Red Army (the "government" was seated in Bialystok).

ee also

* West Ukrainian People's Republic, short-lived state in 1918–19

References

* Davies, Norman, "White Eagle, Red Star: the Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20", Pimlico, 2003, ISBN 0-7126-0694-7. (First edition: St. Martin's Press, inc., New York, 1972)


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