Tulaeva Svetlana

№ 2, 2010

• DON COSSACKS IN THE 16–17TH CENTURIES AS AUTONOMIC SECURITY ORGANIZATION

  Having conducted the analysis of the Don Cossacks’ community from the viewpoint of political economy of violence, S.Tulaeva demonstrates that treating Cossacks as being antagonistic towards the state does not capture the essence of this phenomenon, and its manifestation, development and transformation being closely tied to the formation of the centralized state should be regarded as a natural component of this process. Viewing the Russian young state and the Cossacks’ autonomy as special “security organizations” having possessed the power recourse, she interprets the relations between them as a “security contract” implying the government’s attraction of the Cossacks power resources with the purpose of more efficient fulfillment of its functions and describes in details the conditions under which the contract was concluded, its peculiar features and the reasons for the next transformation.

  DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2010-57-2-66-74