Ukrainian–Soviet War

Ukrainian–Soviet War
	Part of the Ukrainian War of Independence and Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919
	; Ukrainian People's Army soldiers in front of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kiev
Date	First: 8 November 1917 – 12 June 1918; Second: 2 January 1919 – November 1921
Location	Ukraine
Result	First: Ukraine and Central Powers victory; Second: Soviet victory
Territorial; changes	Partition of Ukraine between the Bolsheviks and Poland; Establishment of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkSSR) and its absorption into the Soviet Union;
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Commanders and leaders

The Ukrainian–Soviet War (Ukrainian: українсько-радянська війна, romanized: ukrainsko-radianska 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 war ensued soon after the October Revolution when Lenin dispatched Antonov's expeditionary group to Ukraine and Southern Russia.

Soviet historiography viewed the Bolshevik victory as the liberation of Ukraine from occupation by the armies of Western and Central Europe (including that of Poland). Conversely, modern Ukrainian historians consider it a failed war of independence by the Ukrainian People's Republic against the Bolsheviks. The conflict was complicated by the involvement of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, non-Bolshevik Russians of the White Army, and the armies of the Second Polish Republic, Austria-Hungary, and the German Empire, among others.