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Issue 1 (42)

ORENBURG COSSACK FORCES DURING WORLD WAR I: CURRENT TRENDS IN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Year	2014	Number	1(42)
Pages	74-82	Type	scientific article
UDC	94(470.5)”1914/19”	BBK	63.3(235.55)534-68
Authors	Ivanov Alexey V.	Topic	CENTENARY OF WORLD WAR I
Summary	The article focuses on the study of the established in the Russian historical research understanding of the changes occurring in the Orenburg Cossack forces under the effect of World War I of 1914–1918, which in the final count predetermined the indifferent position of the Cossacks in the revolutionary events of February 1917. The article presents an analysis of historiographic sources containing information about the state of the economics and welfare in the regions of the Orenburg Cossack forces, as well as the influences of the war time hardships on the transformation of pubic opinion among the Cossacks. The author criticized the established in the Russian historiography and still prevailing tradition of explaining the Cossacks’ discontent with the existing regime exclusively from the positions of economic determination. The author supports the emerging trend of inclusion in the group of factors which determined the political behavior of the Cossacks, of the social and cultural circumstances in addition to the social and economic ones. The author draws a conclusion on the need to expand the sphere of application of the anthropological approach to the study of the processes of the prerevolution period, and particularly the “decossackization” processes.
Keywords	Russian history, historiography, XX century, World War I, Orenburg Cossack army
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