WI monarchy restored to Russia

Very implausible if not even ASB. In Russia wasn't any support for restoration of monarchy, not even if monarch would be just powerless figurehead. Czars just were too hated.
 
Considering the screwup that was Nicholas II's reign and over half a century of communist propaganda, there's no way Russia's going to become a monarchy again, not even a constitutional one
 
Given that there was (almost) no call for this, the changes required to get that possible are probably bigger than the changes that result from it.
Also, all the Imperial family was murdered. There really isn't anyone left qualified. (The closest candidate is probably already sitting on a throne somewhere.)
 
Considering the screwup that was Nicholas II's reign and over half a century of communist propaganda, there's no way Russia's going to become a monarchy again, not even a constitutional one

In modern Russia there is nostalgia for Tsarist Russia, and a few supporters for a Tsarist restoration, but this comes mostly from the upper classes, there's also a bunch of Soviet nostalgia as well.

So all in all yeah, it's unrealistic for a Tsarist restoration to happen in the 90's or now.
 
https://www.rt.com/politics/russia-monarchy-return-poll-661/

Only 28% of Russians support or would not oppose a monarchy. 67% are opposed. 82% support the current republican constitution.

I'd think the Russian government would need to screw up really badly for a restoration to happen.

Maybe Zyuganov wins the 1996 presidential election, and somehow manages to govern worse than Yeltsin. In the end, both the communists and United Russia are discredited, and there is growing support for some monarchist party.
 
I'm sure I saw an article about Putin supporting a restoration a few months back
There is bound to be other statistics on that the matter
Maybe a gradual restoration of the monarchy, starting of as a Nationalist symbol and slowly becoming once again a legal entity
 
I'm sure I saw an article about Putin supporting a restoration a few months back
There is bound to be other statistics on that the matter
Maybe a gradual restoration of the monarchy, starting of as a Nationalist symbol and slowly becoming once again a legal entity

Really? I haven't seen or even heard about Putin's willing to restore monarchy. I doubt that Putin would dare do that. It hardly would be very good idea even if tsar would be purely Putin's puppet.
 
https://www.rt.com/politics/russia-monarchy-return-poll-661/

Only 28% of Russians support or would not oppose a monarchy. 67% are opposed. 82% support the current republican constitution.

I'd think the Russian government would need to screw up really badly for a restoration to happen.

Maybe Zyuganov wins the 1996 presidential election, and somehow manages to govern worse than Yeltsin. In the end, both the communists and United Russia are discredited, and there is growing support for some monarchist party.

Yes, I think this sort of thing is the most likely route. Russians do tend to appreciate a successful strong leader and after a discredited communist government, then a discredited Yeltsin regime, then a discredited Zyuganov regime, there'd certainly have been scope for something else to take its place. As it turned out, Putin delivered but if a Romanov had returned (who?) and managed to stir deep instinctive memories of Holy Russia, it's not impossible that he might have taken Napoleon III's route to the throne. Much more likely though would have been a capable populist-nationalist.

However, all that is to ignore that there wasn't a clear pretender, those who might be the pretenders showed no inclination to return and contest power, there'd have been major opposition from constitutionalists and communists (even if it was aimed to be a figurehead monarchy), and when Napoleon III tried it, his name carried far more respect in the country than that of Romanov does - and, of course, political expectations were different as to how governments should be structured 150+ years ago.
 
I think the best chance for a monarchy restoration would be for the communists to fall from power prior to WWII or better yet lose the Russian Civil War. The Russian people might be willing to have a constitutional monarch along the lines of the British in that said monarch is mostly a figurehead and the actual governing power rests with an elected prime minister/president/etc.
 
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