title: Military Traditions of the Don Cossacks in the Late Imperial Period
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metadata.value: Zul’fugarzade, Teimur E.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Peretyatko, Artyom Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-10-19T16:50:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-10-19T16:50:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.value: Zulfugarzade T.E., Peretyatko A.Yu. Military Traditions of the Don Cossacks in the Late Imperial Period. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue  3, рp.  771–789.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.305
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19923
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metadata.value: The issue of the development of military traditions in the Cossack milieu on the eve of the 20th
  century is a matter of debate in contemporary Russian historiography. A number of scholars
  (e. g., A.V.Iarovoi and N.V.Ryzhkova) have argued that the Cossacks’ system of historical
  military traditions remained viable until 1917. Other researchers (e. g., O.V.Matveev) have
  claimed that the system of Cossack military traditions had actually experienced a crisis and
  collapsed by then. This paper seeks to establish the truth. To accomplish this, the authors
  draws upon a set of newly discovered responses from Russian generals to the report of the
  Maslakovets Commission. The paper shows that the Cossacks’ historical traditions of military
  training in the stanitsas were forgotten not by the beginning of the 20th century, but by the
  1860s. During this time, declining combat capability of the Don units, with 50% of the young
  Cossacks entering military service by the beginning of the 20th century “poorly” and “unsatisfactorily” prepared, drew the attention of Alexander  II. The War Ministry endeavored to
  revive the Cossacks’ martial games and military training in the stanitsas. However, according
  to certain Cossack generals, its actions, at the same time, had violated the historical Cossack
  traditions of military training, causing, by certain testimonies, their total ruin by the beginning of the 20th century. The main conclusion drawn in this paper is that the image of the Cossack as a “dashing equestrian warrior” going back to official pre-revolutionary historiography
  is highly idealized.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Don Cossacks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: military traditions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: martial games
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: preparation for service
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: idealization of the past
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Military Traditions of the Don Cossacks in the Late Imperial Period
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metadata.value: Article
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