Soviet Republic
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Soviet republic, a republic ruled by soviets (workers' councils), may refer to one of the following:
- Any of the Republics of the Soviet Union.
- Bolshevik Russia and the Russian SFSR after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and during the Russian Civil War.
- Any of several short-lived communist revolutionary governments that were established in the first half of the twentieth century, under the influence of the Russian Revolution:
- *Soviet Republic of Naissaar, on an island in the Baltic Sea (1917-1918)
- *Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Jan 1918–Apr 1918) in the south of Finland only — Social Democratic Party of Finland.
- *Räterepublik, (November 1918) "Council Republics" established throughout Germany, beginning in Kiel, during the German Revolution.
- *Alsace Soviet Republic (November 8-22, 1918)
- *Slovak Soviet Republic (1918–1919)
- *Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) — Hungarian Communist Party
- *Bavarian Soviet Republic also known as the Munich Soviet Republic (1919) — Independent Socialist Party
- *Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (July 9 1920 - September 21 1920), created in Soviet occupied territory during the Polish-Soviet War.
- *Persian Soviet Socialist Republic also known as the Soviet Republic of Gilan (June 1920–September 1921)
- *Mongolian People's Republic (1924–1992) — Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
- *Hunan Soviet (ca 1927) — Communist Party of China
- *Chinese Soviet Republic also known as the "Jiangxi Soviet" (1931–1934) — led by Mao Zedong's faction of the Communist Party of China
- The system of government implemented in the USSR and other soviet republics.
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