ABOUT THE URAL COSSACK ARMY DURING THE CIVIL WAR

(BASED ON MULTI-GENRE MATERIALS)

Abstract

Annotation. The article deals with the topic of the Ural Cossacks – one of the estates living in the territory along the middle and lower reaches of the Ural River. So, in 1900, the number of Ural Cossacks together with the number of their families was about 123 thousand people. The author pays special attention to the participation of the Cossack army in battles with the Red Army during the Civil War, as well as the reasons for the termination of their existence as a military formation, because as a class they have survived to our times. This study is based on the works of N.I. Fokin «The Finale of tragedy. Ural Cossacks in the XX century», L. Masyanova «The death of the Ural Cossack army» and S.S. Balmasova «The Anti-Bolshevik movement in the Ural army. A brief historical sketch», etc. According to researchers, the reasons for the decline of the Cossack army were the short-sighted policy of the atamans and the anti-Cossack sentiments of the Bolsheviks, since the former were considered «soldiers» of the tsar.

Keywords: Ural Cossacks, Cossack army, estate, civil war, Red army, Bolsheviks.