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Following the failed August Coup in Moscow on 19–21 August 1991, the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine declared independence on 24 August 1991 and renamed the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic as Ukraine. A referendum on independence was held on 1 December 1991. 92.3% of voters voted for independence nationwide.
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 ...
3 days ago · The territories under Bolshevik control were formally organized as the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic [S.S.R.] from 1937). Under Bolshevik tutelage, the first All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets in December 1917 had formed a Soviet government for Ukraine; the second,
At the end of 1922 it became one of the constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Until 1937 it was called the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (; Ukrainska Sotsialistychna Radianska Respublika).
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR or Soviet Ukraine was in the southwestern part of the Soviet Union. It had the second largest population of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union. This lasted from 1922 to 1991.
Soviet Ukraine was one of the main theaters of World War II. The borders of Soviet Ukraine changed in 1939, when Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact and the Soviet Union brutally occupied Eastern Poland, today’s Western Ukraine.
On December 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)—a federation of Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, and the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (S.F.S.R.)—was proclaimed. The first constitution for the new multinational federation was ratified in January 1924.
4 days ago · Soviet Ukraine in the postwar period. in Ukraine in History. Also known as: Ukrayina. Written by. Andrij Makuch. Senior manuscript editor, Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Andrij Makuch, Lubomyr A. Hajda. Associate Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. Coeditor of The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society.
The Ukraine preserved, from the shipwreck of her greater hopes, the status of a nation (denied to her by the tsarist regime) and a token recognition of her statehood in the form of the Ukrainian SSR. A formal expression of the compromise was the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of which the Ukraine became a constituent member.
SSR within the Soviet Union. Soviet Ukraine did have the external attributes of statehood, but it was not an authentic nation-state within the USSR. In fact, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a multiethnic, multicul-tural administrative-political construction more similar to a minia-ture Soviet Union than to a Ukrainian nation-state ...
