War Game Cossacks
Posted by kip4u on July 2, 2008
The Cossacks (Russian: Каза́ки́, Kazaki; Ukrainian: Козаки́, Kozaki; also known as Polish: Kozacy, originally derived from Turkic Qazaqlar) are a group of martial people living in the southern steppe regions of Eastern EuropeCossack host, which allows to distinguish individual Cossack groups by their location, history, traditions and even military roles. and Asia. The Cossacks themselves make up a
Although several theories exist on the formation of Cossacks, towards the end of the 14th century two Cossack hosts emerged: one on the Don river and the other on the lower Dnieper river. Joined by numerous RuthenianMoscow and Lithuania. By the start of the 16th century they swelled into large militant states. The Don Cossack Host, allied with the Tsardom of Russia, began a systematic conquest of conquering and colonizing lands to secure her borders on the Volga, the whole of Siberia, the Yaik and the Terek Rivers. migrants who left the adjacent northern states of
The Dnieper Cossacks of Ukraine formed the Zaporozhian Sich. Initially allied with Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the increasing social and religious pressure by the Commonwealth caused the Cossacks of Ukraine to proclaim a Hetmanate and to initiate a rebellion under Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the mid-17th century. Afterwards the Treaty of Pereyaslavl with the Russia ensured that Poland would never recover from the defeat.
In the 18th century the rising Russian Empire’s expansion ambitions relied on ensuring the loyalty of the Cossacks, and this caused tension with their traditional independent lifestyle, resulting in rebellions led by Stenka Razin, Kondraty Bulavin and Yemelyan Pugachev. In extreme cases whole Hosts could be dissolved as was the fate of the Zaporozhian Sich in 1775. By the end of the 18th century, the Cossacks became a special social estate (sosloviye) that served as border guards on national and internal ethnic borders as was in the case of the Caucasus War, regularly supplied men to any conflict such as the numerous Russo-Turkish Wars. In return they would enjoy a vast social autonomy. This caused them to form a streotypical portrayal of 19th century Russian Empire abroad and her government domestically.
During the Russian Civil War Cossack regions became the main centres for the Anti-Bolshevik White movement, a portion of whom would form the White Emigre. At the hands of the Red Army and after its victory, the Cossack lands were subjected to famine, and suffered extensive repressions that were relaxed only in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War Cossacks fought for both the Soviet Union and collaborated with Nazi Germany. After the Collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cossack lifestyle blossomed in Russia. Many fought in Post-Soviet Conflicts and there are special units in the Russian Military wholly made of them. Russian Cossacks also have a parallel civil administration and police duties in their homelands and are now an integral part of Russian society. There are also Cossack organizations in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and other countries.
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