User:Chargrace621/Ukrainian War of Independence

In the current Cherkasy Raion of Cherkasy Oblast (then in the Kyiv Governorate), a local man named Vasyl Chuchupak led the "Kholodnyi Yar Republic" which strove for Ukrainian independence. It lasted from 1919 to 1922, making it the last territory held by armed supporters of an independent Ukrainian state before the incorporation of Ukraine into the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Much of Southeastern Ukraine was held under the control of Ukrainian Anarchists under Nestor Makhno, now known as Makhnovshchina. Makhnovshchina lasted from the early revolution period in 1917 until August of 1921, when Bolshevik political and military powers forced Makhno and his supporters into exile in Romania.