The Ukrainian–Soviet War is the term commonly used in post-Soviet Ukraine for the events taking place between 1917 and 1921, nowadays regarded essentially as a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Bolsheviks. The war ensued soon after the October Revolution when Lenin dispatched Antonov's expeditionary group to Ukraine and Southern Russia.
Ukrainian People's Army soldiers in front of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv
The first detachment of Sich Riflemen after the capture of Kyiv in January 1918.
Polish–Ukrainian, Polish–Soviet and Ukraine–Soviet Wars in early 1919
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. Under the Soviet one-party model, the Ukrainian SSR was governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union through its republican branch, the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Bolshevik commissars in Ukraine (1919).
Soviet Russia in Europe.
Draft constitution of the Soviet Union (1937).
Soviet soldiers preparing rafts to cross the Dnieper during the Battle of the Dnieper (1943). The sign in Russian reads: "Let's get Kiev!"
