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	Establishment of the Bolshevik dictatorship in Soviet Russia (officially Dictatorship of Proletariat); Russian Civil War;

The Russian Empire, also known as Russia, disintegrated as the result 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.