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The Don Cossacks on the Road to Independence

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 1970
The Don Cossacks belonged to an agrarian society which depended exclusively upon the soil productivity. Consequently, the wellbeing of the individual depended upon the acreage available for his use. In the last two decades prior to the revolution of 1917, changes in land ownership took place to the disadvantage of the Cossacks. The Voysko reserve land (
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Don Cossacks and the February Revolution

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 1968
In the great Russian empire, by the twentieth century, the Cossacks had formed a well-to-do agrarian community whose privileged position as an independent state gradually evolved into a strictly military society of limited political status and autonomy.
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Family and Community Among the Don Cossacks

2000
A common history, a shared way of life and a set of self-governing institutions helped to preserve a collective identity among the Cossacks. But the cohesion of Cossack society did not stem primarily from these. Cossack solidarity was ultimately underpinned by a sense of family and community, in which the boundaries between the two were constantly ...
Shane O’Rourke
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Don cossacks-doukhobors in the arkhangelsk exile

Etnograficheskoe obozrenie, 2023
The article examines the life of Cossacks-Doukhobors, who retreated from the Orthodox Church, in exile in the Arkhangelsk province in 1778-1802 and 1812-1818. I draw on a range of newly discovered archival materials to describe the experience of a group of exiles in the extreme conditions of the North of Russia, their attempt to create a religious ...
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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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The Don Cossacks 1549–1920

2000
The Don river basin is one of the oldest sites of human habitation, having been settled continuously since paleolithic times. For millenia its numerous waterways, open steppe and abundance of game have proved attractive to countless peoples. Nomads in particular have been drawn to its expansive plains which are part of the great Eurasian steppe ...
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IMPERIAL LETTERS TO THE DON (1735–1739): ON THE STATUS OF THE DON COSSACK HOST

LOMONOSOV HISTORY JOURNAL, 2023
It is a commonplace statement of modern historiography that aft er the transfer of the Don Cossack Host from the jurisdiction of the Ambas-sadorial Prikaz to the Military Collegium in 1721 it completely lost its autonomy. In recent years, however, such an assessment of the infl uence of the Emperor’s Edict of 3 March 1721 on the position of the Don ...
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The Local Administration of the Don Cossacks

2000
One of the characteristic features of peasant society is the exclusion of peasants from the political process. While this is not an absolute rule, there have been few peasant communities that have been able to exert some control over political structures above the village level.
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