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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian: Українська Радянська Соціалістична Республіка, romanized: Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Russian: Украинская Советская Социалистическая Республика), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR ...
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- Russian, Ukrainian, (Ukrainian declared as sole official language in 1990)ᵃ
The territorial evolution of the Ukrainian SSR, 1922–1954. Progressive Ukrainians wanted an independent Ukraine, socialists desired a future that was connected with the Russian Bolsheviks, but factions argued over degrees of autonomy.
On December 30, 1922, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, along with the Russian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian SSRs, formed the initial federative entities of the newly created Soviet Union. Although Lenin envisioned a union based on greater equality, the reality was different.
The Republic united the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, the Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic and the Odessa Soviet Republic as part of the Russian SFSR. It was soon overrun, however, by forces of the Central Powers and the Ukrainian People's Republic .
- Kharkiv
- World War I
Coordinates: 50°27′N 30°30′E. 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.
- Russian (dominant), Ukrainian (folkloristic), (in 1990 Ukrainian declared as official)ᵃ
- Soviet republic
- Supreme Soviet
Soviet Ukraine. The territories under Bolshevik control were formally organized as the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic [S.S.R.] from 1937).
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.
