Ukrainian War of Independence
The Ukrainian War of Independence, also referred to as the Ukrainian–Soviet War in Ukraine, lasted from March 1917 to November 1921. It saw the establishment and development of an independent Ukrainian republic, most of which was absorbed into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1919 and 1920. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991.
Image: 1917. Члены первого уездного исполкома Юзовки
Image: Ukrainian brigade 1919
Image: Polish troops in Kiev
Image: Nestor Makhno and his Lieutenants, Berdyansk, 1919
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
