Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia

Short-lived socialist state in present-day Belarus (1919) This article is about a short-lived puppet state of Soviet Russia. For Byelorussia in the Soviet Union, see Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. For other uses, see Byelorussia (disambiguation) and Belarus (disambiguation).

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Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка Беларусь (Belarusian)
Социалистическая Советская Республика Белоруссия (Russian)

1919

Flag

Coat of arms

Status

Puppet/Buffer State of Soviet Russia

Demonym(s)

Belarusian/Byelorussian

Government

Soviet Republic

History

• Established

1 January 1919

• Disestablished

February 1919

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Belarusian People's Republic

Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia

Today part of

Belarus

The Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia (SSRB; Belarusian: Сацыялістычная Савецкая Рэспубліка Беларусь, romanized: Sacyjalistyčnaja Savieckaja Respublika Biełaruś; Russian: Социалистическая Советская Республика Белоруссия / ССРБ, romanized: Sotsialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika Belorussiya / SSRB) was an early republic in the historical territory of Belarus for only one month in 1919 after the collapse of the Russian Empire as a result of the October Revolution.

First establishment

Bolsheviks first established the Republic on 1 January 1919 in Smolensk when the Red Army entered Belarusian lands following the retreating German army, which had been occupying the territory as a consequence of World War I. The SSRB replaced the Belarusian People's Republic, and consisted of the governorates of Smolensk, Vitebsk, Mogilev, Minsk, Grodno, and Vilna.

It was considered by Bolsheviks to be a buffer republic. In a month it was disbanded. The Smolensk, Vitebsk and Mogilev provinces were included in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), and the remainder formed another buffer republic, the Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Litbel).

Second establishment

Main article: Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

The republic was re-established under the same name on 31 July 1920. However, in traditional Soviet historiography it has been referred to as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR), its name after the incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1922.

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