Pugachev's Rebellion

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During the reign of Catharine the Great there were peasant revolts because of dissatisfaction with the imperial government and the unpopularity of the war with the Ottoman Empire amongst serfs and Cossacks. The largest rebellion was lead by a man named Pugachev who clamed to be Catharine's deceased husband, Tsar Peter III. Did Pugachev's Rebellion ever have a chance at overthrowing Catharine? And what would happen if it was successful?
 
So I know thread necromancy is frowned upon, but I was going to ask this exact question and there are no replies on this thread, so it's not like I'm opening up any old wounds.

How possible is a Pughachev rebellion succeeding? How endangered was the regime in OTL? If not, what would it take to endanger it?
 
So I know thread necromancy is frowned upon, but I was going to ask this exact question and there are no replies on this thread, so it's not like I'm opening up any old wounds.

How possible is a Pughachev rebellion succeeding? How endangered was the regime in OTL? If not, what would it take to endanger it?

It's not all that likely, IMHO, primarily because Pugachev had to be all things to all men, but if he gets in power would find it near-impossible to fulfill a fraction of his promises, let alone all of them.
 

Razgriz 2K9

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I know that Direwolf's timeline covered the Pugachev's Rebellion in a way, it didn't really put Pugachev on the throne as Peter III, but it did make successful its aims of freeing the serfs and reforming Russia into a Liberal Constitutional Monarchy
 
It's not all that likely, IMHO, primarily because Pugachev had to be all things to all men, but if he gets in power would find it near-impossible to fulfill a fraction of his promises, let alone all of them.

I largely agree, but what are the chance Pugachev actually gets into power, even if his regime immediately collapses? Did he ever seriously threaten central power? It could have ramifications for the French Revolution if it becomes particularly nasty.
 
What happened OTL was that as soon as the Russian government started to take Pugachev seriously and sent sufficient troops, it was over. You'd need Katherine to be even more distracted and also trajectories on which the rebellion could spread to other parts of Russia independent on Pugachev's miltary advance. I don't really see that at this point in time.
 

Wolfpaw

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As to whether or not he could have gained power, no. Be that as it may, the man led the largest peasant revolt in Russian history and the most jarring internal upheaval until 1905 (which, in all fairness, trumps even the French Revolution for size).

Pugachyov scared the ever-living shit out of the monarchy for generations by unleashing the very real specter of class warfare and brought the question of serf emancipation to the center of Russian politics for the next century. It'd be harder for him to do better than he did IOTL.
 
As to whether or not he could have gained power, no. Be that as it may, the man led the largest peasant revolt in Russian history and the most jarring internal upheaval until 1905 (which, in all fairness, trumps even the French Revolution for size).

Pugachyov scared the ever-living shit out of the monarchy for generations by unleashing the very real specter of class warfare and brought the question of serf emancipation to the center of Russian politics for the next century. It'd be harder for him to do better than he did IOTL.

What about if there was an uprising somewhere else at the same time, like in Poland against Russian interference?
 
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