Cossacks in the Civil War: peculiarities of the Ural Cossack host’s participation

Abstract

This article is about the Cossacks’ participation in the Civil War, which ended 90 years ago. The author focuses on the Ural Cossack host, which represented a unique socio-economic phenomenon. In the article we can see that weighty objective reasons were impelled the Ural Cossacks to an uncompromising armed opposition with the Soviet power: their economic, political and moral values were incompatible with those rules, which the power inculcated by compulsion.

Keywords

• civil war
• cossacks in the civil war
• ural cossack host
• reasons of the cossacks’ anti-sovietism