Re-making a Frontier Community or Defending Ethnic Boundaries? The Caucasus in Cossack Identity

Anton Popov

Europe-Asia Studies, 2012, vol. 64, issue 9, 1739-1757

Abstract: The essay focuses on the notion of the Caucasus as a reference point in the construction of Cossack identity in southern Russia. Since the late Soviet period, the Cossack revivalist/nativist movement has emerged in the territories which constituted the frontier zones of Tsarist Russia. Arguably, the historical Cossack hosts were established as a kind of frontier community which played an important role in the expansion of the Russian Empire. This essay examines how post-Soviet Cossacks reinterpret the meanings of the Caucasus as a spatial and cultural realm where, or in relation to which, they produce their identity as a distinct ethnic and cultural community.

Date: 2012
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