Dissolution of the Russian Empire

The Russian Empire, also known as Russia, disintegrated as the result of the combined effect of the Russian Revolution which started in 1917 and the abdication of Nicholas II, the defeat of Russia in World War I, and the Russian Civil War.

• Independence of Finland
• Second Polish Republic
• Ukraine after the Russian Revolution

See also

• Dissolution of the Soviet Union
• Pro-independence movements in the Russian Civil War

Further reading

• Edmund A. Walsh. "The Fall of the Russian Empire: The End of the Monarchy". www.theatlantic.com. (FEBRUARY 1928 ISSUE) ISBN 9781494097554
• Philip Longworth. "Russia's Empires Their Rise and Fall: from Prehistory to Putin". John Murray, 2005 ISBN 9780719562044
• Pavel Miliukov. "The Russian Revolution". Academic Press, 1978