Ukrainian People's Republic
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The Ukrainian People's Republic was a short-lived state in Eastern Europe. Prior to its proclamation, the Central Council of Ukraine was elected in March 1917 as a result of the February Revolution, a
A soldiers' demonstration in Kyiv, March 1917
Members of the General Secretariat in July 1917
Funeral of Cossacks from Bohdan Khmelnytsky Regiment killed in August 1917 in Kyiv
Petliura, Vynnychenko and Hrushevsky during a meeting in Kyiv's Sofiyska Square, November 1917
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, UkSSR and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from
Ukrainian People's Republic
…fighting on different sides of the front. As a result of the fighting, Soviet Russia managed to extend its control over what would ultimately become the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a founding member of the Soviet Union in 1922. During its short existence, the republic went through several political transformations…
Bolshevik commissars in Ukraine (1919)
Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine in 1921
Starving children during the 1921-1923 famine in Ukraine
Trial of alleged members of the "Union for the Freedom of Ukraine" in Kharkiv, 1930