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Caucasus: Cossack cavalry patrolling during the Russian campaign. #210243573
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Harmsworth`s Universal Encyclopedia 1940s.Cossack cavalry patrolling in the snowbound mountainous country of the Caucasus during the Russian campaign against the Turks in the early years of the Great War. Cossacks were warrior subjects who provided the tsars with mounted troops in return for land. The First World War and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 brutalised and weakened the Cossack communities but also galvanised assertions of Cossack identity, only for the Cossacks to be devastated by the Civil War and Bolshevik persecution.
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