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Ukraine

Country in Eastern Europe; a founding republic of the Soviet Union, independent since 1991.

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  1. headed by Leonid Kravchuk (President of Ukraine) 1991–1994

Soviet Ukraine was one of the four republics at the Founding of the Soviet Union in 1922. Its independence vote of 1 December 1991 preceded the Belovezha Accords by a week.

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  • Soviet Union 30 Dec 1922 founding republic (Ukrainian SSR) Primary record 1

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  1. 30 Dec 1922 Ukraine founded Soviet Union
  2. 1991–1994 Leonid Kravchuk head of Ukraine
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  1. Declaration of Union and Treaty of Union, December 30, 1922, Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, Michigan State University, 30 Dec 1922. Primary record
    The Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic (RSFSR), the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (USSR), the Belorussian Socialist Soviet Republic (BSSR) and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republics (Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia), hereby conclude a treaty for their union
  2. Leonid Kravchuk, independent Ukraine's 1st president, dies, Associated Press, 10 May 2022. Scholarship & press
    Kravchuk led Ukraine as its Communist Party boss in the waning years of the Soviet Union, and played a pivotal role in the demise of the USSR before holding the Ukrainian presidency from 1991 through 1994.
  3. Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union: Signed, Sealed, and Delivered?, Law Library of Congress (In Custodia Legis), 8 Jan 2013. Scholarship & press
    This was the Treaty on the Creation of the Soviet Union, which was adopted 90 years ago on December 30, 1922, by representatives from Belarus, Russia, Transcaucasian SFSR (Transcaucasia, aka South Caucasus), and Ukraine.
  4. Leonid Kravchuk, Independent Ukraine's First President, Dies at 88, Voice of America, 10 May 2022. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    I understood Ukraine could never be really independent if the USSR still existed
  5. Interviews: Serhii Plokhii, Toynbee Prize Foundation, 28 Sep 2014. Scholarship & press
    the overwhelming December 1 turnout in favor of total Ukrainian independence nixed all hopes for both a revived Soviet Union as well a Slavic Union.
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