Soviet Republic

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Soviet republic, a republic ruled by soviets (workers' councils), may refer to one of the following:

• Bolshevik Russia and the Russian SFSR after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and during the Russian Civil War.
• Any of the Republics of the Soviet Union.
• Any of several short-lived communist revolutionary governments that were established after the Russian Revolution under its influence:
  • Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte (Workers' and Soldiers' Councils) established throughout Germany, beginning in Kiel, during the German Revolution of November 1918, including the Alsace Soviet Republic (8 - 22 November 1918)
  • Chinese Soviet Republic also known as the "Jiangxi Soviet" (1931 - 1934) - led by Mao Zedong's faction of the Communist Party of China
  • Commune of the Working People of Estonia (November 1918 - February 1919)
  • Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (January - April 1918) in the south of Finland only - Social Democratic Party of Finland.
  • Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (9 July - 21 September 1920), created in Soviet occupied territory during the Polish-Soviet War
  • Hunan Soviet (ca 1927) - Communist Party of China
  • Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) - Hungarian Communist Party
  • Limerick Soviet (15 - 27 April 1919) established by Limerick trade union council during a general strike against British military rule.
  • Lithuanian-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (February - August 1919)
  • Mongolian People's Republic (1924 - 1992)- Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
  • Bavarian Soviet Republic (1919)
  • Persian Soviet Socialist Republic also known as the Soviet Republic of Gilan (June 1920 - September 1921)
  • Slovak Soviet Republic (16 June – 7 July 1919), directly supported by the Hungarian one
  • Soviet Republic of Naissaar, on an island in the Baltic Sea (1917 - 1918)
• The Soviet republic (system of government) implemented in the USSR and other soviet republics.

See also: Socialist republic, Communist state