http://www.policy.hu/mykhnenko…Intentional_Community.pdf
ZitatIn January 1918, the Bolsheviks launched an offensive in the northern Ukraine and advanced on Kiev. Almost immediately, the forth Congress of the Donbas Soviets proclaimed the creation of a separate Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic joining the Soviet Russia. The Central Rada [of the Ukrainian People's Republic] signed a peace accord with the Central Powers in February 1918 at Brest-Litovsk, and asked for military assistance. Facing a German-Austrian offensive, the Bolsheviks had to dismantle the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih government and retreated from Ukraine in April 1918. The Donbas entered a phase of rebellions and partisan warfare.
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