Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 · THE MAP IN FEB 2000

Map of Russia and the former Soviet Union in February 2000

Grozny falls; Putin takes power

Russia and the former Soviet Union in February 2000: Grozny falls; Putin takes power. Since August 1996, 4 territories changed status on this map: including Tajikistan, Poland, Czechoslovakia (Czech lands; Czech Republic from 1993) and 1 more.

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Map of Russia and the former Soviet Union in February 2000: Grozny falls; Putin takes power. Colours show Independent neighbours, Western powers and allies, The USSR, then Russia. — FEB 2000 · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Atlas chapter bibliography and event-specific source record · Natural Earth v5.1.2 complete geographic reference · Natural Earth full administrative reference units · Natural Earth v5.1.2 disputed-area references · Natural Earth v4.1.0 archived disputed territories (pre-2020 Karabakh) · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical polities · Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960 · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography

Source details

Maps of History, citing the scholarly bibliography in SOURCES.md. Historical factual reference; no copyrighted prose reproduced
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Complete earlier source perimeter retained. The 2018 edition is a closest-source reference for the 1994 ceasefire era; it does not resolve small 2016 frontline changes.
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated records; documented component selection, unions and shared-edge extraction.
US Department of State, Office of the Historian. US government publication
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Full source components and holes retained; documented historical unions and repairs.

The constituent Soviet republics use full successor-unit geographic references, with Crimea in Ukraine and the later Baikonur lease hole filled. Conflict hatches locate named territories and are excluded from sovereign-area accounting; source-date gaps are explicit.

proxy: Natural Earth administrative vintage · proxy: Natural Earth geographic reference · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 · proxy: Natural Earth v5.1.2 contemporary reference · proxy: Natural Earth4.1.0 pre2020 control reference · proxy: Natural Earth5.1.2 administrative region reference · reconstruction: 1945–1991 · reconstruction: 1991–2000 · reconstruction: Chapter route completion/event date · vector: 1953–2023 · vector: 1969–1975 · vector: 1987–2005 · vector: 1987–2023

Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Tajikistan	War, rebellion, breakaway → Independent neighbours
Poland	Independent neighbours → Western powers and allies
Czechoslovakia (Czech lands; Czech Republic from 1993)	Independent neighbours → Western powers and allies
Hungary	Independent neighbours → Western powers and allies

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CH 12 — Meiji and post-Soviet Russia compared

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