Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Maps
List of Illustrations.
Part One: Beginnings to 1600
Introduction
Prologue
Chapter One: The Origins of the Cossacks
Part Two: The Era of Cossack Rebellions 1600-1774
Chapter Two: Bodan Khmelnytsky
Chapter Three: Stepan Razin
Chapter Four: Emel’ian Pugachev
Part Three: The Cossacks in the Long Nineteenth Century 1774-1914
Chapter Five: Government, Administration and Economy
Chapter Six: Cossack Women
Chapter Seven: Economic Crisis and Revolution
Part Four: The Cossacks in the Soviet Era
Chapter Eight:The Cossacks and the February Revolution
Chapter Nine: The Cossacks and the Civil War
Chapter Ten: The Cossacks Under Soviet Power
Epilogue: The Return of the Cossacks?
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Shane O'Rourke is Lecturer in History at the University of York

Reviews

"An important, engaging and accessible contribution to scholarly knowledge and understanding of the Russian Cossacks, utilizing a range of archival materials, published primary sources and secondary literature."--Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham