The Ukrainian People's Republic (Ukrainian: Українська Народня Республіка, Ukrayins’ka Narodnia Respublika; abbreviated УНР, UNR) or Ukrainian National Republic or Ukraine is a former country predecessor of modern Ukraine that was declared at first as a part of the Russian Republic after the Russian Revolution. After the October Revolution Ukraine sought independence, because of the Soviet aggression.
During its short existence the republic went through several political transformations from the socialist-lenient republic headed by the Central council with its General secretariat to the dictatorship of Pavlo Skoropadsky and later the national republic, led by Directorate and Symon Petlyura.
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