The Cossack Legacy and its Impact,” Oleh Gerus highlights the Zaporozhian Cossacks’ military republic, characterized by a "rigid, almost Spartan, code of rules." Hobsbawm notes a unique ...

For the first time since the October Revolution a member of regional government was elected as ataman, a military chief of Cossacks in southern Siberia’s republic of Buryatia and eastern Siberia ...