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The Cossacks: A Guarantor of Peace or a Land-Mine in Russia's Federalism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Tomila Lankina
Tomila Lankina*
Affiliation:
Open Society, Soros Foundation, New York
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Russia's policy towards the Cossacks may prove detrimental to the development of federalism in Russia. Their rehabilitation is important for the rebirth of Russian culture. Yet, the Cossacks as a social-military institution, may further harm the relations between ethnic Russians and non-Russians in the Caucasus, which may revive the dispute over the preservation of the ethnic principle in Russia's federalism.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 721 - 726
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Copyright © 1996 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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