Ukrainian–Soviet War

Part of Ukrainian War of Independence and the Russian Civil War

Soldiers of the UNR Army in front of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kiev.

Date	1917–1921
Location	Ukraine
Result	Bolshevik victory, establishment of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Territorial changes	Split of Ukraine between the Soviet Union and Poland (Peace of Riga)

Belligerents

Ukrainian People's Republic

Ukrainian Galician Army

German Empire (1918)

Poland (1920–21)

Russian volunteers (1919–20)

Poland (1918–19)
Independent rebels

Russian SFSR (1917–21)

Ukrainian SSR

Commanders and leaders

Symon Petliura
Pavlo Skoropadsky
Mykhailo Pavlenko
Oleksandr Udovychenko

Georgiy Pyatakov
Volodymyr Zatonsky
Mikhail Muraviev
Nikolay Shchors

Strength

300,000 at their peak

Ukrainian People's Republic

German Empire (1918)

Russian SFSR (1917–21)

The Ukrainian–Soviet War (Ukrainian: Українсько-радянська війна) is the term commonly used in post-Soviet Ukraine for the events taking place between of 1917–21, 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 the Antonov's expeditionary group to Ukraine and Southern Russia. Soviet historical tradition viewed it as an occupation of Ukraine by military forces of Western and Central Europe, including the Polish Republic's military – the Bolshevik victory constituting Ukraine's liberation from these forces. Conversely, modern Ukrainian historians consider it a failed War of Independence by the Ukrainian People's Republic against the Russian Soviet Republic, ending with Ukraine falling under a Russian-Soviet occupation. Both historical interpretations tend to underplay the part of the anarcho-communist Nestor Makhno, who does not quite fit into either interpretation.

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