Cossacks: Their History and Country

(0 User reviews) 114

By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Early Modern, Modern (19th C), Modern (20th C)

Authors: William Penn Cresson In Year : 1919

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Cossacks: Their History and Country

Foreword
Chapter I. The Origin of the "Free People"
Chapter II. The Zaporogian Cossacks
Chapter III. Yermak and the Cossack Conquest of Siberia
Chapter IV. Bogdan Hmelnicky: A Cossack National Hero
Chapter V. The Struggle for the Ukraine
Chapter VI. Mazeppa
Chapter VII. The End of the Free Ukraine: Little Russia
Chapter VIII. Pougatchev
Chapter IX. The Hetman Platov
Chapter X. The Cossacks of To-day: Organization and Government
Chapter XI. The Cossacks of To-day: The Don
Chapter XII. The Frontiers of Europe

One of the earliest histories of the Cossacks to appear in English, with an emphasis on the exploits of famous Cossack leaders and Cossack struggles for political autonomy. Originally published in 1919.

From the Foreword: "It is the proudest boast of the Cossacks of today -- as of their forbears of the Ukraine -- that they have never been classed as serfs nor for a moment lost their freeman's instinct for the principles of liberty. While the peasants of North Russia were bowed in shameful submission to the Great Princes of Moscow and later to the 'dark forces' of the Tsar's court and the Baltic-German officialdom of the capital on the Neva, the history of the Cossack inhabitants of the southern steppes was (as we shall later see) a long epic of heroic resistance to the encroachments of autocracy." - Summary by Kazbek