What if, as a result of a different WW1/Russian Civil War the Crimean People's Republic manages to survive? Assuming an independent Ukraine managed to survive, would Ukraine try to invade it? Would they try to seek an alliance against Russia instead? If Bolshevik Russia has no land border with Crimea, would they try to focus on annexing Ukraine first, or could they go for a naval invasion of Crimea? Would a non-Bolshevik Russia also try to regain the peninsula? Would the new state try encourage the Crimean Tatar diaspora to return to Crimea? Would the state remain stable, or devolve into ethnic/religious/class/political conflict? Would any outside powers decide to help it against foreign invasion or internal conflict?