Northern Eurasia 1991: Baltic Indepedence
6 September 1991
6 Sep 1991
Successors of the Soviet Union
1816–1914 Late Tsarist Russia
1914–1918 The Great War and the Revolution
1918–1921 The Russian Civil War: The White Phase
1921–1927 The Russian Civil War: The Green Phase
1927–1941 The Soviet Union under Stalin
1941–1943 The Great Patriotic War: Germany Invades
1943–1945 The Great Patriotic War: Germany at Bay
1945–1991 Soviet Superpower
1991–pres Successors of the Soviet Union
Baltic Indepedence
6 Sep 1991 Baltic Indepedence
12 Dec 1991 Belavezha Accords
25 Dec 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union
4 Oct 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis
18 Jun 1995 First Chechen War
6 Feb 2000 Second Chechen War
13 Nov 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan
23 Mar 2005 Color Revolutions
7 Aug 2008 South Ossetia War
27 Feb 2014 Crimean Crisis
30 Jun 2014 Donbass Rebellion
30 Sep 2015 Syrian Civil War
9 Nov 2016 Russian Electoral Interventions
15 Jan 2020 Northern Eurasia Today
The first republics to break away from the Soviet Union were the Baltic states, whose 1940 annexation had never been recognized by the West. Lithuania had declared independence in 1990, with international pressure seeing off a Soviet attempt at reconquest. In the aftermath of the failed coup attempt, the Soviet Union recognized the independence of all three Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
