Title of the article

Political and Legal Views of the Cossacks of the South of Russia on National and Territorial Unity during the Civil War

 Authors 

Fedor S. Sosenkov — Associate Professor, Department of constitutional and municipal law, Law faculty, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, 23 Gagarin avenue, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia, f.sosenkov@yandex.ru

 Category 

HISTORY OF THE STATE AND LAW. DOMESTIC HISTORY

Year,.Volume, Number 

2020, Vol. 8, № 4 (32)

 Pages 

5-14

 Article type 

Original article

 Index UDK 

340.12

 DOI 

10.21685/2307-9525-2020-8-4-1

 Abstract 

The civil war of 1918–1920 was accompanied by a surge in the formation of self-proclaimed States. Such new formations as the all-great don army and the Kuban People’s Republic became interesting from the point of view of the features of organizational and legal manifestations of autonomism and separatism. Having emerged on the territories of the don and Kuban Cossack armies, respectively, these forms of self – organization of the Cossack population reflected mainly two trends-automatization (don) and sovereignization (Kuban). The least inclined to any political isolation was the Terek army. The role of the unification centre, which was assumed by the command of the Volunteer army (later – The armed forces of Southern Russia), was expressed in practice in a rather inconsistent policy of suppressing separatist aspirations. The failure of the policy of reconstruction of national and territorial unity of the Russian state's ideology of «white Russia», in addition to military and economic reasons, due to the lack of a clear and coherent strategy of state-legal develop-ment, the definition of which was postponed until the victory over the Bolsheviks.

 Keywords 

national-territorial unity, autonomism, separatism, All-great don army, Kuban People’s Republic

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Sosenkov F.S. Political and Legal Views of the Cossacks of the South of Russia on National and Territorial Unity during the Civil War. Electronic scientific journal «Science. Society. State», 2020, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 5-14, available at: http://esj.pnzgu.ru. DOI: 10.21685/2307-9525-2020-8-4-1. (In Russian).