Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( USSR abbreviation, Ukrainian Українська Радянська Соціалістична Республіка, УРСР; Russian Украинская Советская Социалистическая Республика, УССР ) was on December 24 1918jul / January 6 1919greg. . proclaimed and was since the founding of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR) in 1922 up to the end of 1991, one of its union republics.
Capital was 1918-1934 Kharkov, then Kiev.
History
The Ukrainian SSR was formed from the People's Republic of Ukraine on 10 March 1919. On December 30, 1922, she became part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, while the West Ukrainian People's Republic had come in 1921 with the Peace of Riga to Poland.
Since the 1930s, Ukraine was exposed as all parts of the USSR to the Stalinist terror. In the great famine of 1932/1933, the Holodomor, about 3.5 million people arrived in Ukraine killed. In 1939, the Polish western Ukraine was annexed in accordance with the secret protocol to the German - Soviet Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian SSR slammed (see Soviet occupation of eastern Poland ). The new territory was to Lviv Oblasts, Drohobytsch (1959 dawned in the Lviv Oblast ), Ternopil and Stanislawiw (now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast ) divided.
During the German occupation ( 1941-43/44 ), the country was exposed as Reich Commissariat Ukraine a brutal Nazi policy of oppression, but that territory by area Reichskommissariat was not completely identical to the SSR.
The Ukrainian SSR was (as well as the Byelorussian SSR) was added next to the Soviet Union as its own founding member of the UN and had its own voice in the General Assembly, which was always delivered in the block with the USSR.
1940/1947 Northern Bukovina was connected (as Chernivtsi Oblast ) and 1945 Carpathian Ruthenia ( Transcarpathian Oblast as ) to the Ukrainian SSR.
The Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea was initially a part of the Russian SFSR and was until 1954 the Ukrainian SSR slammed.
1984 50.8 million inhabitants lived in the Ukrainian SSR, of which around 74 % Ukrainians, 21 % Russians and 5% other ethnicities. Throughout the Soviet Union, the share of Ukrainians in 1979 was approximately 16.1%.
On 10 September 1989, the Ukrainian People's Movement Narodnyj Ruch Ukrajiny based in Kiev. The delegates call on the national and economic sovereignty of Ukraine innheralb a Soviet confederation, as well as an improved status of the Ukrainian language. In addition, more rights for the Christian churches in addition to the Russian Orthodox Church.
In the elections to the Supreme Soviet on March 4, 1990 in Ukrainian SSR, the Communist Party of Ukraine reached slightly more than 70 % of the parliamentary seats. Volodymyr Ivashko was first elected as Speaker of Parliament, this office, however, had to resign as he in July 1990 at the XXVIII. Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was elected to the newly created post of Deputy Secretary-General of the party. He was replaced by Stanislaw Gurenko, who spoke out as KP Chair to one for the "national sovereignty" of Ukraine as well as for a " spiritual rebirth " of the country, on the other hand he wanted to prevent a secession from the Soviet Union.
The Supreme Soviet in Kiev has delivered on 16 July 1990 with 355 votes to 4, a declaration of sovereignty with which the laws of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic take precedence over those of the Soviet Union.
On January 1, 1991, there were 51.9 million inhabitants.
By August 1991 coup in Moscow decided by the Supreme Soviet in Kiev on 24 August 1991 with 346 of 450 votes to withdraw from the Soviet Union and the creation of an independent state. With a referendum on the independence of Ukraine from 1 December 1991, the country has detached from the Soviet Union.
Party leaders
The first secretaries of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR: