Don Cossacks and peasantry at the turning point of historical epochs: between imperial and soviet socialist modernization (1855-1939)
Monograph
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Rostov-na-Donu
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The monograph focuses on one of the most complex and pivotal periods in Russian history, analyzing the role and status of the Don Cossacks and peasantry in the turbulent processes of the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, as well as their place in the political, economic, and socio-cultural life of the Russian Empire and the new Soviet Russia — the USSR. It characterizes the causes and consequences of the Cossacks’ and peasants’ participation in bourgeois-liberal reforms and crises, in revolutions and the Civil War, and their difficult relations with the new Soviet government during the construction of the foundations of socialist society in the 1920s–1930s.
