Ukrainian Soviet Republic

Not to be confused with Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets or Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

For anti-Bolshevik Ukrainian states, see Ukrainian People's Republic and West Ukrainian People's Republic.

The Ukrainian Soviet Republic (Russian: Украинская Советская Республика, romanized: Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Respublika; Ukrainian: Українська Радянська Республіка, romanized: Ukrainska Radianska Respublika) was a Soviet republic created by the Ukrainian Bolsheviks after the Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets declared independence of Soviet Ukraine in March 1918 and merged the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, the Odessa Soviet Republic, and the Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic into one state.

Ukrainian Soviet Republic Украинская Советская Республика (Russian)
1918
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Capital	Kharkiv
Government	Soviet republic
Chairman of the Sovnarkom
• 1918	Mykola Skrypnyk
Historical era	World War I
• Established	19 March 1918
• Soviet forces withdrawn	18 April 1918
• Liquidation	18 April 1918
ISO 3166 code	UA
Preceded by Succeeded by Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets Odesa Soviet Republic Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic Ukrainian People's Republic
Today part of	Ukraine Russia

History

The Ukrainian Soviet Republic and its government began on 24–25 December 1917 when in Kharkiv the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Councils (radas, soviets) was conducted, which declared the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets or Ukrainian SR. The congress decided in favour of an alliance with the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and elected its Central Executive Committee (Ukrainian: ЦВК).

It was reformed on March 19, 1918, at the Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets in Yekaterinoslav, following the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk by the Russian Russian SFSR on March 3. After the victory of the Soviet government in Ukraine, the Ukrainian People's Republic was officially rebranded as the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and then the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (UkSSR) which became a co-founder of the Soviet Union.

Military forces of Soviet government of Ukrainian Republic of that time are known as Red Cossacks Army, later integral part of Red Army of the Soviet Union.

The USR united the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, the Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic and the Odessa Soviet Republic as part of the Russian SFSR. It was soon overrun, however, by forces of the Central Powers and the Ukrainian People's Republic.

On April 18, 1918, in Taganrog, the next session of the Central Executive Committee of Soviets announced that the government of Soviet Ukraine, the Central Executive Committee of Ukraine and the People's Secretariat were now combined as the "Ukrainian Bureau" to guide the insurgent struggle against the German occupation.