title: Establishment of Soviet Puppet Republics in Southeastern Ukraine as an Instrument of the Bolshevist Expansion in Early 1918
abstract: The article analyzes the specifics of the establishment and functioning of the southeastern Soviet republics in the territory of Ukraine (Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Soviet Republic, Odesa Soviet Republic, and Soviet Socialist Republic of Taurida) in 1918, as well as “LPR” and “DPR” in 2014; shows their specific participation in Russia’s hybrid warfare against Ukraine in a symmetrical comparison.The author emphasizes that the formation of these republics was a means of Bolshevist aggression in the early 
journal: Ukrainian Studies