The Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian: Галицкая Социалистическая Советская Республика, Г.С.С.Р.) was a self-declared and short-lived political entity that existed from 15 July to 21 September 1920. The communist state was established during a successful counter-offensive of the Red Army in the summer of 1920 as part of the Polish-Soviet War and in the course of which the Polish-Ukrainian joint military force (Polish Ukrainian Front) was forced to retreat from its positions along the Dnieper that it secured earlier in 1920 all the way to the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.