Galician Soviet Socialist Republic

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Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (Galician SSR) existed from July 8, 1920 to September 21, 1920 during the Polish-Soviet War within the area of the South-Western front of the Red Army.

The Galician SSR was established and managed by the Galician Revolutionary Committee (Galrevkom), a provisional government created under the patronage of Soviet Russia. The government was seated in Tarnopol in East Galicia with Vladimir Zatonsky (Volodymyr Zatonsky) as its president. The Galrevkom established an administrative structure, a Galician Red Army, a currency, education system. The national languages (of equal status) were declared to be: Polish, Ukrainian, and Yiddish.

Galrevkom did not control the important area of East Galicia: Lviv area with its oilfields of Boryslav and Drohobych.

Galician SSR was reoccupied by Poland on September 21, 1920.

A similar, but less elaborate activity, of Polrevkom, was related to the North-Western front of the Red Army.

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  • Davies, Norman, White Eagle, Red Star: the Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20, Pimlico, 2003, ISBN 0-7126-0694-7. (First edition: St. Martin's Press, inc., New York, 1972)
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