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Russia experiences a major social upheaval, the …

Years: 1768 - 1779

Russia experiences a major social upheaval, the Pugachev Uprising, during the 1768-74 war with the Ottoman Empire.

In 1773 a Don Cossack, Emel'yan Pugachev, announces that he is Peter III.

Other Cossacks, various Turkic tribes that feel the impingement of the Russian centralizing state, and industrial workers in the Ural Mountains, as well as peasants hoping to escape serfdom, all join in the rebellion.

Russia's preoccupation with the war enables Pugachev to take control of a part of the Volga area, but the regular army crushes the rebellion in 1774.

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Northeastern Eurasia (1768 - 1779)
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East Europe (1768 - 1779)