Don Republic

Coordinates: 47°25′00″N 40°06′00″E / 47.4167°N 40.1°E / 47.4167; 40.1
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Don Republic (1918–19)
Донская республика
Almighty Don Host (1919–20)
Всевеликое войско Донское
1918–1920
Flag of Don Republic
Flag
Coat of arms of Don Republic
Coat of arms
Anthem: Всколыхнулся, взволновался православный Тихий Дон (It has shaken, has stirred the Orthodox quiet Don)
Map of the Don Host Oblast (green)
Map of the Don Host Oblast (green)
CapitalNovocherkassk
Common languagesRussian, Ukrainian
Religion
Eastern Orthodoxy
GovernmentParliamentary republic
Ataman 
• 1918–1919
Pyotr Krasnov
• 1919–1921
Afrikan Bogaevsky
LegislatureKrug
Historical eraWorld War I
• Proclaimed
18 May 1918
• Disestablished
1920
CurrencyDon Ruble
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Don Soviet Republic
Don Host Oblast
Donetsk Oblast

The Don Republic (

Bolshevik republic formed by the Armed Forces of South Russia on the territory of Don Cossacks against another self-proclaimed Don Soviet Republic. The Don Republic existed during the Russian Civil War after the collapse of the Russian Empire from 1918 to 1920.[1]

In April 1918, after the liberation of Novocherkassk from control of the Don Soviet Republic, a Don Provisional Government was formed under G. P. Ianov. On 11 May, the "circle for the Salvation of the Don" opened, which organized the anti-Bolshevik war. On 16 May, Pyotr Krasnov was elected Ataman. On 17 May, Krasnov presented his "Basic Laws of The All Great Don Host." Its 50 points included the inviolability of private property and abolished all laws promulgated since the abdication of Nicholas II. Krasnov also encouraged nationalism. According to Peter Kenez, "This new preoccupation with the glories of the past allowed the Cossacks to regard the struggle against their enemies as a war of national liberation, not merely one for defending their private interests against their fellow citizens."[2]

The Don Republic claimed the territory of the

RSFSR and in the Lugansk and Donetsk Oblasts of the neighboring Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic
.

According to Peter Kenez, "Krasnov named Semenov, one of the army officers, 'governor' of Voronezh province (the part that had been liberated) and Colonel Manakin 'governor' of Saratov province."[2]: 176 

The Don Republic ceased to exist after the Don Cossacks, who formed an essential part of the

Soviet famine of 1932–33 and because of the repatriation of Cossacks after the Second World War by the United Kingdom to the Soviet Union
, resulting in the eventual disappearance of the Don Cossacks' movement of resistance to the Soviet Union.

Gallery

  • Medal of the Great Don Army: Defender of the Free Don.
    Medal of the Great Don Army: Defender of the Free Don.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9781442252813
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 9780974493442
    .

External links

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