The Polish Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated to Polish SSR, was a proposition by the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee to establish a

constituent republic Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...

of the Soviet Union for the

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

population, that emerged during the Polish–Soviet War in 1920. The idea assumed the formation of the Soviet republic from the territory of

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of ...

, following the Soviet victory in the war, however it was never executed, as Poland won the war in 1921."Tymczasowy Komitet Rewolucyjny Polski" in ''Słownik historii Polski'', Wiedza Powszechna, Warsaw, 1973, p. 504.

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The idea was proposed in 1920 by the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee during the Polish–Soviet War. It assumed the creation of the

of Soviet Union for

population from the conquered territories of the

, following the Soviet victory in the war. The Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee was formed by

Communist Party of the Soviet Union "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

, as a provisional government from territories of Poland conquered during the war. It announced its governance over the state on 30 July 1920, in

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...

, the first major city on the west from the Curzon Line. The Committee announced its plan to create Polish SSR in its ''Manifesto to the Polish working class of towns and villages'' (

: ''Manifest do polskiego ludu roboczego miast i wsi'') by

Felix Dzerzhinsky Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky ( pl, Feliks Dzierżyński ; russian: Фе́ликс Эдму́ндович Дзержи́нский; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official, born into Poland, Polish n ...

, which was announced in Vilnius on 30 July 1920.Sylwia Frołow: ''Dzierżyński. Miłość i rewolucja'', Znak Horyzont, Kraków, 2014, p. 211. It stated, that the committee planned to create the Soviet republic following gaining the control in entire Poland.

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{{reflist Proposed countries Communism in Poland Polish–Soviet War Poland–Soviet Union relations 1920 in Poland Russian irredentism

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