Galician Soviet Socialist Republic
Galician Socialist Soviet Republic Галицкая Социалистическая Советская Республика Galicyjska Socjalistyczna Republika Rad Галицька Соціалістична Радянська Республіка | |||||||||||
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Territory where Soviet power was established in July-September 1920 | |||||||||||
| Status | Unrecognized state | ||||||||||
| Capital | Ternopil | ||||||||||
| Government | Revolutionary Committee (provisional) | ||||||||||
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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 Soviet Socialist Republic was a short-lived, self-declared Bolshevik political entity that existed from 15 July to formally 21 September 1920 with the capital in the city of Tarnopol (Ternopil). The communist state was established during a successful counter-offensive of the Red Army in the summer of 1920 as part of the Polish-Soviet War and in the course of which the Polish-Ukrainian joint military force (Polish Ukrainian Front) was forced to retreat from its positions along the Dnieper that it secured earlier in 1920 all the way to the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.