Traditional Cossack Values and the Civil War in the Don Region
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Venkov Andrey V.
Doctor of Science (History), Professor, Professor, Chief Researcher, Federal research center “Southern scientific center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (SSC RAS), 41, Pr. Chekhova, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia; Professor, Institute of History and International Relations, Southern Federal University, 105/42, Bolshaya Sadovaya St., Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia.
andrey_venk@rambler.ru
Abstract. The article shows how, contrary to the established views, the Cossack family reacted to the upheavals of the Civil War. Referring to documents and personal field
research, the author shows that the reflection of the Civil War in the first works of fiction by Soviet writers, in particular by M.A. Sholokhov, unnecessarily dramatizes the relationship within the Cossack family. It is shown that conflicts within the Cossack family with fatal consequences, if they existed, were extremely rare.
Keywords: Cossacks, family, Civil War, tragedy.
For citation: Venkov A.V. Traditional Cossack Values and the Civil War in the Don Region, in Novoe Proshloe / The New Past. 2026. No. 1. Pp. 24–39. DOI 10.18522/2500-3224-2026-1-24-39.
The article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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