Ukrainian - Soviet War

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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