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The Cossacks: Their History and Country

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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 (6 hr 33 min)

Chapters

Foreword

10:45

Read by Kerry Adams

Chapter I. The Origin of the "Free People"

29:59

Read by Owlivia

Chapter II. The Zaporogian Cossacks

40:34

Read by Wolfgang Bas

Chapter III. Yermak and the Cossack Conquest of Siberia

37:06

Read by roselbex

Chapter IV. Bogdan Hmelnicky: A Cossack National Hero

42:59

Read by Piotr Nater

Chapter V. The Struggle for the Ukraine

14:52

Read by thorolfhammer

Chapter VI. Mazeppa

36:30

Read by thorolfhammer

Chapter VII. The End of the Free Ukraine: Little Russia

23:56

Read by thorolfhammer

Chapter VIII. Pougatchev

37:49

Read by thorolfhammer

Chapter IX. The Hetman Platov

43:04

Read by roselbex

Chapter X. The Cossacks of To-day: Organization and Government

21:59

Read by roselbex

Chapter XI. The Cossacks of To-day: The Don

21:57

Read by roselbex

Chapter XII. The Frontiers of Europe

31:48

Read by roselbex