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The Ukrainian–Soviet War [1] (Ukrainian: радянсько-українська війна, romanized: radiansko-ukrainska viina) is the term commonly used in post-Soviet Ukraine for the events taking place between 1917 and 1921, nowadays regarded essentially as a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Bolsheviks (Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR).
The idea to call for an All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets was put forward by the Bolshevik faction within the executive committee of the Kyiv Council of workers' deputies during the united session of the executive committees of the councils (soviets) of workers' and soldiers' deputies of Kyiv city on 16 November [O.S. 3 November] 1917, soon after the Kyiv Bolshevik Uprising had failed to ...
The natural-gas industry flourished as well, and Ukraine became the site of the first post-war production of gas in the Soviet Union; by the 1960s Ukraine's biggest gas field was producing 30 percent of the USSR's total gas production. The government was not able to meet the people's ever-increasing demand for energy consumption, but by the ...
The Congress of Soviets was the supreme governing body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and several other Soviet republics and national autonomies in the Soviet Russia and soviet Union from 1917 to 1936 and a somewhat similar Congress of People's Deputies from 1989 to 1991.
Vladimir Lenin was voted the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union (Sovnarkom) on 30 December 1922 by the Congress of Soviets. [11] At the age of 53, his health declined from the effects of two bullet wounds, later aggravated by three strokes which culminated with his death in 1924. [12]
On 21 September, Yeltsin declared the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet dissolved; [43] this act was in contradiction with a number of articles of the Constitution of 1978 (as amended 1989–1993), such as, Article 121 6 [note 2] which stated:
Stanisław Vikentyevich Kosior (Russian: Станислав Викентьевич Косиор; 18 November 1889 – 26 February 1939), sometimes spelled Kossior, was a Soviet politician who was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union and member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
1939–1940: Deputy People's Commissar of the Food Industry, Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny [ a ] (18 February [ O.S. 5 February] 1903 – 12 January 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet , the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 ...