Don Soviet Republic
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 Map of the territory claimed by Don Soviet Republic. | |||||||||
| Status | Republic within Russian SFSR | ||||||||
| Capital | Rostov-on-Don | ||||||||
| Common languages | Russian | ||||||||
| Government | Soviet Republic | ||||||||
| Chairman of the Sovnarkom | |||||||||
| Legislature | Soviet council | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War I | ||||||||
• Established | 23 March 1918 | ||||||||
• Conquered by Don Cossacks | 8 May 1918 | ||||||||
| Currency | Ruble | ||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||
The Don Soviet Republic (Russian: Донская советская республика, romanized: Donskaya sovetskaya respublika) was a short-lived Soviet republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that existed from March to May 1918.
Claiming the territory of the Don Host Oblast, the republic was proclaimed in March 1918 after the retreat of the White Army from the area. In May, after the revolt of the Don Cossacks and the German advance into the region as a result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the republic was overthrown and its leaders fled. The Don Cossacks' Don Republic took over the territory of the Don Soviet Republic.