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Odessa Soviet RepublicОдесская Советская Республика (Russian)
Одеська Радянська Республіка (Ukrainian)

January–March 1918

Flag

Coat of arms

Area claimed by the Odessa Soviet Republic in March 1918 (in green)

Status

Puppet state of Soviet Russia

Capital

Odessa

Government

Soviet republic

Chairman

• 1918

Vladimir Yudovsky [ru]

Legislature

Council of the People's Commissars

Historical era

World War I

• Republic proclaimed

17 January 1918

• Disestablished

13 March 1918

Currency

Odessa ruble

Preceded by

Succeeded by

	Ukrainian People's Republic
	Rumcherod

Ukrainian People's Republic
Ukrainian Soviet Republic

Today part of

Ukraine
Moldova

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The Odessa Soviet Republic (OSR; Ukrainian: Одеська Радянська Республіка, romanized: Odeska Radianska Respublika; Russian: Одесская Советская Республика) was a short-lived Soviet republic formed on 30 January [O.S. 17 January] 1918 from parts of the Kherson and Bessarabia Governorates of the former Russian Empire.

Brief description

See also: Odessa Bolshevik uprising

The republic was proclaimed during the Bolshevik invasion of Ukraine immediately before Bolshevik forces pushed the Ukrainian government out of Kiev and Sfatul Țării proclaimed the independence of the Moldavian Democratic Republic. The Odessa Soviet's governing body was the Rumcherod, formed in May 1917 shortly after the February Revolution. After its Second Congress, the OSR's Soviet was chaired by Vladimir Yudovsky. He had been installed after a pro-Bolshevik coup d'état organized by the Narkom Nikolai Krylenko.

In January 1918, Yudovsky was appointed Chairman of the local Council of the People's Commissars and formed a government that included Bolsheviks, anarchists and members of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. The government proclaimed Odessa a free city and pledged allegiance to the Bolshevik government in Petrograd. The following month, the government was liquidated by Mikhail Muravyov and merged with the regional Central Executive Committee Rumcherod.

Political instability meant that the OSR was not recognized by any other government, including Russian Bolsheviks, during its brief existence. The Republic failed to stop the Romanian occupation of Bessarabia, a region to which it laid claim. It ceased to exist altogether when it was sacked by German and Austro-Hungarian troops on 13 March 1918, two months after its creation, following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between the Central Powers, Ukrainian People's Republic and Petrograd Sovnarkom. The government and army evacuated first to Nikolayev, then to Sevastopol and finally to Rostov-on-Don.

Bibliography

Smele, Jonathan D. (2015). "Odessa Soviet Republic". Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 812–813. ISBN 978-1-4422-5281-3. LCCN 2015011566.

External links

(in Russian) Odesa Soviet Republic on odesskiy.com
(in Ukrainian) Odesa Soviet Republic on leksika.com.ua

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Origin	Communist Party of Ukraine Ukrainian Communist Party (1920–1925) Ukrainian Communist Party (Borotbists) (1918–1920) Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion) Ukrainian Communist Union (Bund) Borbysts Communist Party of Western Ukraine Ukrainian Peasants-Workers Socialist Association (''Sel-Rob'') Group of Ukrainian Communists Abroad
Successors	Communist Party of Ukraine Socialist Party of Ukraine Peasant Party of Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) Communist Party of Workers and Peasants Workers Party of Ukraine (Marxist–Leninist) Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine

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