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{{Infobox Former Country
|conventional_long_name = Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic
|native_name = <div style="padding-top:0.3em;line-height:1.0em;">Крымская Социалистическая Советская Республика<br/>''Krymskaja Socialističeskaja Sovetskaja Respublika''</div>
|common_name = Crimea
|continent = Europe
|p1 = Second Crimean Regional Government
|flag_p1 = Flag of Crimea 1918.png
|s1 = General Command of the Armed Forces of South Russia 
|flag_s1 = Flag of Russia.svg
|image_flag = |image_coat = 
|image_map = |image_map_caption = 
|capital = Simferopol
|common_languages = [[Social:Russian language|Russian]]{{·}}[[Social:Crimean Tatar language|Crimean Tatar]]<br/>[[Social:Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]{{·}}[[Social:German language|German]]
|government_type = Socialist republic
|title_leader = Chairman
|leader1 = Dmitry Ulyanov
|year_leader1 = 1919
|legislature = Revolutionary committee
|era = Russian Civil War
|event_pre = Bolshevik invasion of Crimea{{·}}Fall of the Second Crimean Regional Government
|date_pre = Mar&ndash;Apr 1919
|event_start = Republic established
|year_start = 1919
|date_start = May
|event1 = White Movement {{nowrap|Volunteer army offensive}}
|date_event1 = <br/>June 1919
|event_end = Republic defeated and White Movement control established
|date_end = June
|year_end = 1919
|today = {{unbulleted list |{{flagcountry|Russia}} ''(de facto)''<br>{{flagcountry|Ukraine}} ''(de jure)''}}
}}

The '''Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic'''<ref>Harold Henry Fisher. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=K167sO8f99wC&pg=PA278 The Famine in Soviet Russia, 1919-1923: The Operations of the American Relief Administration.]'' Ayer Publishing, 1971. p. 278. {{ISBN|978-0-8369-5650-4}}</ref> ({{lang-ru|Крымская Социалистическая Советская Республика}} or Крымская Советская Социалистическая Республика;<ref name="Chronos">«[http://www.hrono.ru/organ/ukaz_k/krymssr.php Крымская ССР]» ''Xронос: Историческая Энциклопедия''. ("Crimean SSR". ''Chronos: Historical Encyclopedia''.) Retrieved 20 April 2011. {{ru icon}}</ref> {{lang-crh|Qırım Şuralar Sotsialistik Cumhuriyeti}}) or the '''Soviet Socialist Republic of the Crimea'''<ref name="Fisher">Alan W. Fisher. ''The Crimean Tatars''. Hoover Press, 1978. p. 128. {{ISBN|978-0-8179-6662-1}}</ref> was a state allied with {{wipe|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics}} that existed in Crimea for several months in 1919 during the Russian Civil War.  It was the second Bolshevik government in Crimea<ref name="Fisher"/> and its capital was Simferopol.<ref name="Chronos"/>

==Description==
In April 1919, the Bolsheviks invaded Crimea for the second time (the first was in March 1918 and led to the creation of the short-lived Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic).  After the conquest of Crimea (with the exception of the Kerch Peninsula) by the 3rd Ukrainian Red Army, a Crimean Regional Party Conference at Simferopol from 28–29 April adopted a resolution forming the Crimean Soviet Socialist Republic and a revolutionary committee government.<ref name="Chronos"/>

By 30 April, the Bolsheviks had occupied the entire peninsula and, on 5 May, the government was formed with Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, [[Biography:Vladimir Lenin|Vladimir Lenin]]'s brother, as chairman.<ref name="Chronos"/><ref name="Fisher"/>  On 1 June, the Crimean SSR joined in military union with soviet republics in Russia, [[Place:Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukraine]], Belorussia, Lithuania, and Latvia.<ref name="Fisher"/>

The republic was declared to be a non-national entity based on the equality of all nationalities.<ref name="Chronos"/>  Nationalization of industry and confiscation of the land of landlords, kulaks, and the church were implemented.<ref name="Chronos"/>  The Crimean SSR was more friendly toward the interests of Crimean Tatars than the Taurida SSR had been and leftist Tatars were allowed to take positions in the government.<ref name="Fisher"/>

Starting in late May, Anton Denikin's White Volunteer Army, which had been gaining strength, threatened seizure of Crimea.<ref name="Chronos"/>  On 18 June, White forces under Yakov Slashchov (Яков Слащёв) landed in the area Koktebel and, as a result, the authorities of the Crimean SSR were evacuated from Crimea from 23–26 June and the Whites assumed control of the peninsula.<ref name="Chronos"/> Crimea did not have its own government again until the formation of the [[Place:South Russian Government|South Russian Government]] by the Whites in February 1920.

==Soviet government==
* Chairman of council - Dmitry Ulyanov
* Narkom of Army and Navy - Pavel Dybenko, commander of the Crimean Red Army
* Narkom of Propaganda and Agitation - [[Biography:Alexandra Kollontai|Alexandra Kollontai]]
* Narkom of Health Care - Dmitry Ulyanov
* Narkom of People's Enlightenment - Ivan Nazukin
* Narkom of Justice - I.Ibrahimov
* Narkom of Land Cultivation - S. Idrisov
* Narkom of Foreign Affairs - S. Memetov

== References ==
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==See also==
*History of Crimea
*Russian Civil War

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