Alternate Post-Soviet Breakaway States?

In the 1990s, the Soviet Union collapsed, leading Central Asia and Eastern Europe to breakaway from Russia. What are some alternate states, either being different alternate nations which could occupy the territory and regions that did breakaway or being territory that didn't breakaway from Russia but perhaps could have, that could have come into existence
 
The baltic republics could have broken away as a unified state but this would have been shaky and Im not sure if there was the political willpower to hold them together.
 

ingemann

Banned
All SSRs broke with Russia (even through the Central Asian didn't want to), because de jura they were independent state in common union. The ASSRs stayed part of the SSR they were under.

So you would just need some of the former SSRs to survive, or some of of the ASSRs to become SSRs.

The Karelo-Finnish SSR is one of the most likely to survive, as it only was demoted in 1956.
The Volga German ASSR could potenial had been promoted to a SSR before the war and accidental survived. Beside that we have the Caucasus ASSR as some which could have been promoted, through none beside Dagestan are truely viable. Crimea could also have become a separate SSR rather than a ASSR. There was discussion to establish an Siberian German ASSR or SSR from Kazahkstani territory in the late seventies and eighties. Kaliningrad would have made perfect sense to make into an SSR based on geograhic concerns (it could also had been transferred to Lithaunia under the 1956 territorial reforms), but usual the Soviet needed some kind of ethnic excuse to make an SSR.
 
The baltic republics could have broken away as a unified state but this would have been shaky and Im not sure if there was the political willpower to hold them together.

It not works. Cultures of Baltic countries are very different. And Estonian language is Finno-Ugric language and Lithuanian and Latvian are Baltic languages and they not be very close relatives.

But I think that Crimea could be independence.
 

RousseauX

Donor
It not works. Cultures of Baltic countries are very different. And Estonian language is Finno-Ugric language and Lithuanian and Latvian are Baltic languages and they not be very close relatives.

But I think that Crimea could be independence.
Crimea would probably more likely to secede from Ukraine and rejoin Russia than go independent.
 
Ruthenia, Crimia, Gagauzia.... How about Tatarstan, the only portion of the Russian Federation that seemed to have attempted independence at the time besides Chechnya?
 
Is it possible......

...... to have Rus-descended nations (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine) under one Flag?

And all the territories acquired by Russia east of the Urals break away.
 
...... to have Rus-descended nations (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine) under one Flag?

And all the territories acquired by Russia east of the Urals break away.
Well Siberia has decent Russian population too. But, Siberian republic can be created. ;) There were some small separatist movements.
 
The Karelo-Finnish SSR is one of the most likely to survive, as it only was demoted in 1956.

It is unlikely that it would break away, though, because it would be heavily Russian ethnically and in the 80s-90s in many ways "just" a patch of Leningrad's rural hinterland. A Karelian Republic "national identity" is pretty much nonexistent, I think, ever since WWII.

An ostensibly independent Karelian Republic would cause endless political trouble in Finland, though, both domestically and in foreign political terms.
 
One more think. Let say after incorporation of Ruthenia - Subcarpathia into USSR - Ukrainian SSR in 1945, lets assume, they got autonomy and instead of accepting Ukrainian heritage, separate Ruthen nationality is supported by Moscow. After Soviet Union breaks apart, Ruthenian part of Ukraine declares it's Independence same way as they did after Czechoslovakia divided in March 1939.
Appr year ago there was article about Ruthenians in area requesting more autonomy and rights from Kiev. Problem is, population is now mostly proclaiming themselves for Ukrainians.
 
What about Tatarastan, or east Siberia? Tatarastan has natural recesources and an ethnic identity -stronger in some Tatars than in others. Likewise, even some ethnic Russians in Siberia was taking seperatist actions in the chaos after the Soviet collapse (demanding payment in hard cash for oil, imposing "taxes" on truck transport, refusal to honor contracts etc.)
 
Regarding the displaced Volga Germans (post-Volga German ASSR) - Does anyone have info or maps on a stillborn proposal in June 1979 that called for a new German Autonomous Republic within Kazakhstan, with a capital in Ermentau?
 
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