page_title: Dissolution of Russia
section_title: Historical precedents
hierarchical_section_title: Dissolution of Russia / Historical precedents
caption_attribution_description: English: Soviet Union administrative divisions (republics) and sub-divisions (oblasts, autonomous republics, autonomous districs, etc.) in the year 1989, the last before the process of independence of Soviet republics after the Berlin Wall fall.&#160;
context_page_description: The possible dissolution of Russia is a hypothetical disintegration of the current state of the Russian Federation as a single state with a centralist government, as well as forecast, outlooks, opinions, analysis trajectories and implications of the subsequent consequences of this event.
  The topic is the subject of hundreds of articles on the Internet.
  The current Russian Federation as the primary remnant i.e. successor state of the Soviet Union after its collapse and dissoluton has been experiencing disintegration processes of varying degrees threatening the collapse of the country. This topic was actively discussed by E. Kholmogorov, G. Kasparov, M. Leontiev, P. Svyatenkov, K. Remchukov, K. Rodionov, A. Eliseev, I. Prokopenko, G. Gref, M. Kalashnikov, M. Remizov, M. Delyagin, A. Fursov, G. Malinetsky, V. Solovey, S. Kurginyan, A. Prokhanov, N. Narochnitskaya, V. Averyanov, V. Tretyakov, I. Yakovenko, D. Medvedev.
context_section_description: Throughout the long turbulent and troublesome history of Russia and its various iterations of states and governments ranging from its imperial days as an absolutistic monarchy over the era of being a communist social republic during the soviet era there were two major periods during which significant large territories fell away from its control. The first is the disintegration of the Russian Empire as a result of the February and October revolutions in 1917–1921. Active disintegration processes began in the economy, social structure, public and political spheres of the Russian Empire, which ultimately led to the end of the Tsarist regime and became parts of independent states as Poland, Finland and Romania. The second is the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990–1991 which led to the independence of the 15 republics of the USSR (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan).
  Since 1990s after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the subsequent formation of the Russian Federation as a multi-ethnic centralistically controlled federal state a number of regions have sought to secede.  To varying degrees and through various means, movements and aspirations of independence from the centralist government in Moscow within the present state of Russia have occurred with the most prominently known having led to major armed military conflicts on the territory. The two Chechen Wars (with the  Chechen Republic of Ichkeria), and the Republic of Tatarstan. These are among the more recent historic examples attributed to disintegration processes within Russia.
caption: Administrative map of the Soviet Union in 1989
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