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The Ukrainian Cossacks

open access: yes, 2001
Who are those who defended the city gates of Vienna from the Turkish invasion of 1683? Who founded the first democratic state according to Karl Marx? What historical figure in this group honors with his name an airport in Paris?
Serhii Plokhy
exaly   +3 more sources

Don Cossack Ethnosport: From Cossack Traditional Games to Cossack Show

Ethnosport and Traditional Games, 2019
This article will examine the evolution of Cossack traditional games. First, a brief reference will be given on what the Don Cossack are in ethnic terms today, their numbers and how Soviet power influenced them. The concept of culture of neo-Cossack will be proposed.
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Cossacks

2014
Cossacks were warrior subjects who provided the tsars with mounted troops in return for land. The First World War and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 brutalised and weakened the Cossack communities but also galvanised assertions of Cossack identity, only for the Cossacks to be devastated by the Civil War and Bolshevik persecution.
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A Brief History of the Nekrasovite Cossacks and an Analysis of the Cossack Heritage in Romania

Dialogos, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to the clarification of certain aspects regarding the origins of the Lipovans, the Russian-speaking minority group found on the territory of Romania, which have been long rumoured to be of Cossack origin.
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Tatars and Cossacks

2018
Chapter 3 addresses the month-long Allied march from Evpatoria on Crimea’s western shore toward Sevastopol, and includes the Battle of Alma. Chaos followed upon the heels of the enemy invasion as Commander A. S. Menshikov abandoned Evpatoria to the enemy in order to retrench around Sevastopol.
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The Cossack Myth

2012
In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus', it became one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era.
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