Dissolution of the Russian Empire

Fall of the Russian Empire
Part of the World War I and the Revolutions of 1917–1923
	Map of Europe in 1919
Date	8 March 1917 – 30 December 1922; (5 years, 9 month, and 22 days)
Location	All-Russian Empire breakaway states:; → Russian Republic; → Finland; → Estonia; → Latvia; → Lithuania; → Poland; → Ukraine; → Georgia; → Armenia; → Azerbaijan; → Don Republic; → Far Eastern Republic ; unrecognized breakaway states:; ;
Participants	Emperor of all the Russias; Triple Entente; Russian Provisional Government; Russian Constituent Assembly; Black Hundreds and White movement; Petrograd Soviet, Bolsheviks, Cheka, Red Guards (Red Guards (Finland), Red Cossacks, Red Latvian Riflemen); "National outskirts" (inorodtsy) of the Russian Empire;
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;

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.