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- Title
Základné črty polovojenského života ukrajinských kozákov na konci 19. a začiatku 20. storočia.
- Authors
ZADUNAJSKI, VADIM
- Abstract
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ukrainian Cossacks dominated in the Kuban Cossack army (the largest of the Cossack units of the Russian Empire). A longterm military service and constant military training had contributed to the maintenance and development of the Cossack military and martial arts. Besides teaching military values and the Cossack way of life, various paramilitary contests were organized to maintain high-quality military training. These contests were held both in the front line military units and in the Cossack settlements (with both adult and child contestants). The Cossacks' long-term and hard military service became the basis for certain socio-economic, societal, legal and military privileges. In the places of their compact residence, the Cossacks implemented the principles of military democracy and paramilitary way of life
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; COSSACKS; ETHNOLOGY; HETMANS; CAVALRY; INFANTRY; MARTIAL arts
- Publication
Cultural History / Kultúrne Dejiny / Kulturgeschichte, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 2, p218
- ISSN
1338-2209
- Publication type
Article