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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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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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Ukrainians, Cossacks, Mazepists
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2014Viktor Brekhunenko, Kozaky na stepovomu kordoni levropy: Typolohiia kozats 'kykh spil'not XVI--pershoi polovyny XVII st. (Cossacks on Europe's Steppe Frontier: Typology of Cossack Communities in the 16th and First Half of the 17th Centuries). 504 pp. Kyiv: Natsional'na akademiia nauk Ukrainy, 2011. ISBN-13 978-9660258440.
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2000
No Cossack was just an inhabitant of the territory in which he lived. He was the possessor of all his stanitsa’s natural resources. Ownership of arable land, pastures, meadows, rivers and woods was vested in the stanitsa and these resources were the communal property of all members of the stanitsa. The concept of communal property was deeply rooted and
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No Cossack was just an inhabitant of the territory in which he lived. He was the possessor of all his stanitsa’s natural resources. Ownership of arable land, pastures, meadows, rivers and woods was vested in the stanitsa and these resources were the communal property of all members of the stanitsa. The concept of communal property was deeply rooted and
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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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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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UNIVERSALISING COSSACK PARTICULARISM: ‘THE COSSACK REVOLUTION’ IN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY KUBAN'
Revolutionary Russia, 2012This paper explores the ‘universalistic’ turn of Cossack particularism in early twentieth century Kuban' from soslovie to ethnos. It investigates the growing tension between the particularism of the Cossack caste and the increasingly universalistic setting of modern Russia, a setting that reduced the Kuban' Cossackdom to an isolated anachronism. In the
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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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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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Cossack identity in the new Russia: Kuban Cossack revival and local politics
Europe-Asia Studies, 2006Abstract This article deals with the problem of contemporary Cossack identities, and discusses the question of popular support for the Kuban Cossack organisation in the southern Russian region, Krasnodar krai. In the early 1990s the Cossack movement gathered between 3.5 and 5 million people, and constituted a significant political movement in post ...
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