Editing Secession (section)

===Soviet Union===
[[File:Cold War border changes.png|thumb|250px|[[List of national border changes since World War I|Changes in national boundaries]] in Eurasia in the decades following the end of the Cold War]]

On November 15, 1917, the day in which [[Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia]] was declared by the [[Bolsheviks]], [[Finland]] seceded after the non-Socialist Senate proposed that  Parliament declare Finland's independence, which was [[Finland's declaration of independence|voted by the Parliament on 6 December 1917]]. On December 18, 1917, it was recognized by [[Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Council of People's]]. It was followed by the [[Finnish Civil War]].

The [[Constitution of the Soviet Union]] guaranteed all [[Republics of the Soviet Union|SSRs]] the right to secede from the Union. In 1990, after free elections, the [[Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic]] [[Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania|declared independence]] and other [[Republics of the Soviet Union|republics]] soon followed. Despite the Soviet central government's refusal to recognize the independence of the republics, the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union dissolved]] in 1991.