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three brigades of Galician army signed the
treaty with Bolsheviks about transition of
UGA under the authority of Soviet
commandment. The treaty was signed on
January, 1, 1920. They began to call
themselves Red Ukrainian Galician Army
(RUGA). It enumerated 20 thousand soldiers
and was headed by V. Poraiko. In the course
of the Polish attack on Ukraine, on April, 23,
1920 the RUGA units disarmed Bolshevist
detachments and joined the Polish, who took
away their arms, arrested as “Polish rebels”
and sent to concentration camps in Poland.
That was the tragic end of that army.
January, 9 Soviet power proclaimed N. Makhno’s
1920 detachments to be “out of law”. Having been
ordered to go to the regions of Homel’ and
Mozyr, N. Makhno agreed on condition of
independence recognition of Katerynoslav
and Tavriya. In response, All-Ukrainian
Revolutionary Committee put N. Makhno’s
army “out of law”. On October, 2, 1920 N.
Makhno concluded a treaty with the
commander of the South M. Frunze about
cooperative actions with Red Army against
the White Guard troops of baron P. Vrangel.
In December, 1920, after defeat of P.
Vrangel’s army and occupation of the Crimea,
Soviet commandment decided to get rid of N.
Makhno’s men. They sent 2/3 of their troops
of South front.
February, 9 All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee
1920 adopted “The land law”. Landlords’, state

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