Dissolution of the Russian Empire

The dissolution of the Russian Empire was the disintegration of the Russian Empire (Russia) as a combined effect of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Abdication of Nicholas II, the defeat of Russia in World War I, and the Russian Civil War.

Dissolution of the Russian Empire
Part of the World War I and the Revolutions of 1917–1923
Map of Europe in 1919
Date8 March 1917 – 30 December 1922 (1917-03-08 1922-12-30)
(5 years, 9 month, and 22 days)
Location
All-Russian Empire
Participants
Outcome
  • Dissolution of the Russian Empire and establishment of the Bolshevik dictatorship (officially Dictatorship of Proletariat)
  • Establishment of the Soviet Union between four Soviet "republics"
  • Replacement of traditional estates of the realm with Bolshevik counterpart led by Politburo and the Vozhd discriminating politically against all opposing the new regime
  • Numerous military conflicts and ethnic clashes unfold during and after the dissolution, provoking humanitarian crises and leaving many internally displaced
  • Breakaway states declare multi-party presidential or semi-presidential systems
  • End of World War I and start of Russian Civil War
  • Irredenta war of Russian Bolsheviks under slogan of "World Revolution"
  • Destruction of Black Sea Fleet
  • End of the Pale of Settlement
  • Pogroms in the Russian Empire
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