Galician Soviet Socialist Republic
Galician Socialist Soviet Republic Галицкая Социалистическая Советская Республика Galicyjska Socjalistyczna Republika Rad Галицька Соціалістична Радянська Республіка | |||||||||||
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• 1920 | Volodymyr Zatonsky | ||||||||||
Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||||
• Established | 15 July 1920 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 21 September 1920 | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Ukraine |
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The Galician Socialist Soviet Republic
History
The republic became a buffer zone of the ongoing conflict within the area of the South-Western front of the
The Galician SSR was established on 15 July 1920 when the Galician Revolutionary Committee (Halrevkom), a
The communist government moved to Tarnopol in Eastern Galicia on 1 August 1920 upon occupation of the region by the Red Army. The same day the Halrevkom adopted a decree "About establishing of Soviet power in Galicia". The national languages (of equal status) were declared to be Polish, Ukrainian and Yiddish. With its decrees, the communist government abolished private ownership of the means of production, established an eight-hour workday, separated church from state and nationalised church estates, established a single labour school with seven-year education, and nationalised the land. By the end of August, the Halrevkom tried to conduct elections to establish a permanent Soviet government and convene the All-Galician Congress of Soviets.
The Galician Socialist Soviet Republic was severely understaffed, and while released Ukrainian memoirs leave the fate of the erstwhile
With the Polish offensive on 15 September, those plans failed and the Halrevkom withdrew from Tarnopol. On 21 September 1920, the republic was officially abolished and its revolutionary committee was transformed into the Galician Bureau of the Central Committee of the
Halrevkom did not control the most important area of East Galicia: the
.Government composition
- Volodymyr Zatonsky – chairman
- Mykhailo Baran – deputy chairman
- Fedir Konar – head of departments of justice and interior
- Kazimierz Litwinowicz – secretary
- Ivan Nemolovsky – commissar of finances (later head of the department of railways)
- Myroslav Havryliv – commissar of enlightenment
- Mykhailo Kozoris – commissar of courts
- Omelyan Paliiv – commissar of military
- Ivan Siyak – secretary of the Sovnarkom (Council of commissars)
References
Notes
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- Russian: Галицкая Социалистическая Советская Республика, abbr. Галицкая ССР, ГССР
- Ukrainian: Галицька Соціалістична Радянська Республіка, romanized: Halytska Sotsialistychna Radianska Respublika, abbr. Галицька СРР, ГСРР, Halytska SRR, HSRR
- Polish: Galicyjska Socjalistyczna Republika Rad, abbr. Galicyjska SRR, GSRR
Citations
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Further reading
- ISBN 0-7126-0694-7. (First edition: St. Martin's Press, inc., New York, 1972)
External links
- Halrevkom at the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine
- Galician Socialist Soviet Republic at the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine