Cossack uprisings

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The Cossack uprisings (also kozak rebellions, revolts) were a series of military conflicts between the Cossacks and the states claiming dominion over the territories they lived in, namely the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth[1] and Russian Empire[2] during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The conflict resulted from both states' attempts to exert control over the independent-minded Cossacks. While the early uprisings were against the Commonwealth, as the Russian Empire gained increasing and then total control over the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) lands where the Cossacks lived, the target of Cossacks uprisings changed as well.[1][3][4]

The origins of the first Cossacks are disputed. Traditional

Treaty of Pereyaslav brought most of the Cossack Hetmanate under Russian control.[7]

The Zaporozhian Cossacks were not the only notable group of Cossacks; others included the

Kondraty Bulavin and Yemelyan Pugachev.[3][4][9] In extreme cases, whole Hosts could be dissolved, as was the fate of the Zaporozhian Sich in 1775.[4][10] In this last phase of their history, the Cossacks lost most of their autonomy to the Russian state.[1]

Cossack uprisings, like the Cossack people themselves, have been portrayed variously in the Polish,

Ukrainian historiographers.[11]

List of uprisings

References

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  7. ^ From Tak to Yes: Understanding the East Europeans, Yale Richmond, Intercultural Press, 1995, p. 294
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  11. ISBN 978-0-87395-654-3
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