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In late August of 1991, a Coup took on Mikhail Gorbachev and his attempt to confederate the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin rose to oppose them, but on August 27th, he was assassinated. What could’ve been a peaceful coup or revolution instead dissolved quickly into a bloody civil war. The Soviet Union went out not with a whisper, but with a bang, what many would call the Second Russian Civil War.
As war raged in the North, the Caucasian SSRs of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan agreed to work together to declare their independence. Quickly, in fear of being trapped within whatever succeeded the Soviet Union, the various ethnicities of the Caucasus joined with the fleeing SSRs. Distracted in the North, neither Old Guard Coupists nor the Russian Federationists were able to stop the flight, and the capture of Krasnodar and Stavropol.
By 1994, the war, in the south at least, had ended. In order to keep from being simply reabsorbed or conquered by Turkey or Iran, the various groups agreed to form a federal state. It was agreed that all ethnicities recognized by the Soviet Union would get provinces, along with the Abkhaz, Mingrelians, and Ajars. This was unfortunate for Georgia, but it did gain them international support from the West.
The Federal Parliament was formed, with each province getting 10 representatives, plus 1 for every half a percent of the population above .5% the state had (so if you had 1% of the population, you got 11 Seats in parliament, 1.5% you got 12, etc).
In 2004, the Federation stands as shown. The Liberals, Circassians, Communists, and Turkic Peoples control the Government by a narrow margin, and fears of Russian manipulation to re-acquire Krasnodar, Stavropol, and Kubanevo are high, especially with the prominence of the Russian Citizens’ Party. Time will tell whether the exceedingly multiethnic country can remain together, or whether it will shatter, either be force of arms or force of will.

Description

In late August of 1991, a Coup took on Mikhail Gorbachev and his attempt to confederate the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin rose to oppose them, but on August 27th, he was assassinated. What could’ve been a peaceful coup or revolution instead dissolved quickly into a bloody civil war. The Soviet Union went out not with a whisper, but with a bang, what many would call the Second Russian Civil War.
As war raged in the North, the Caucasian SSRs of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan agreed to work together to declare their independence. Quickly, in fear of being trapped within whatever succeeded the Soviet Union, the various ethnicities of the Caucasus joined with the fleeing SSRs. Distracted in the North, neither Old Guard Coupists nor the Russian Federationists were able to stop the flight, and the capture of Krasnodar and Stavropol.
By 1994, the war, in the south at least, had ended. In order to keep from being simply reabsorbed or conquered by Turkey or Iran, the various groups agreed to form a federal state. It was agreed that all ethnicities recognized by the Soviet Union would get provinces, along with the Abkhaz, Mingrelians, and Ajars. This was unfortunate for Georgia, but it did gain them international support from the West.
The Federal Parliament was formed, with each province getting 10 representatives, plus 1 for every half a percent of the population above .5% the state had (so if you had 1% of the population, you got 11 Seats in parliament, 1.5% you got 12, etc).
In 2004, the Federation stands as shown. The Liberals, Circassians, Communists, and Turkic Peoples control the Government by a narrow margin, and fears of Russian manipulation to re-acquire Krasnodar, Stavropol, and Kubanevo are high, especially with the prominence of the Russian Citizens’ Party. Time will tell whether the exceedingly multiethnic country can remain together, or whether it will shatter, either be force of arms or force of will.