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After Latgale was finally liberated from the Soviets in January 1920, elections to the Constitutional Assembly of Latvia took place on April 17–18, 1920. While the population of Latvia had fallen by almost a million, from 2,552,000 to 1,596,000 in 1920 (in Riga from 520,000 to 225,000), 50 party-lists and candidates competed for 150 seats.
An independent Latvia was proclaimed. 1919: Latvian rouble currency introduced. [3] 1920: 11 August: The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty was signed. 1921: 22 September: Latvia became a member of the League of Nations. 1922: February: A Latvian constitution was adopted. 1934: 15 May: Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis took power in a bloodless coup d ...
The Latvian War of Independence (Latvian: Latvijas Neatkarības karš), sometimes called Latvia's freedom battles (Latvijas brīvības cīņas) or the Latvian War of Liberation (Latvijas atbrīvošanas karš), was a series of military conflicts in Latvia between 5 December 1918, after the newly proclaimed Republic of Latvia was invaded by Soviet Russia, and the signing of the Latvian-Soviet ...
After the liberation of Latgale in January, the Ulmanis government signed an armistice with Soviet Russia on February 21, 1920, and a peace treaty on August 11, 1920. Elections for the Constituent Assembly were held in Latvia between 14 and 16 April 1920.
Historians in the USSR viewed the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940 as reestablishing of power, and the 1920–1940 period of Independence was viewed just as a temporary break in Soviet-Latvian history.
13 January 1920: Government of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic resigns; 1 February 1920: A ceasefire between Russia and Latvia is signed; 11 August 1920: The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty is signed; 4 October 1920: Ratifications are exchanged in Moscow and the treaty goes into effect.
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
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