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The October Revolution, however, was a much harder sell for the Cossacks, who saw in the Bolsheviks an unfettered force for social change in their Host territories, very little of which would be to their benefit.Īs a result, the Cossacks formed an integral element of the anti-Bolshevik "White" armies from the onset of the Russian Civil War onwards, albeit with mixed results. More tangibly, it was clear now that diehard loyalty to the fading monarchy would seriously put their privileges in peril, and so swearing allegiance to the new Russian Republic was an easy choice. The February Revolution that toppled the Tsar was met with surprising support even among the Cossacks, who had likewise grown disillusioned with the Romanovs over the past years.
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As a proud "warrior people," the Cossacks were drafted in vast numbers to serve in the Weltkrieg, and suffered correspondingly heavy losses amidst Russia's dismal performance against the Germans, though they won much renown nevertheless in other theatres that gave their famed cavalry more freedom. Though Cossack subservience to Russia was secured for centuries prior to the Weltkrieg, their ambiguous place in Russia's complex social order afforded them both with many privileges and duties from the Russian state.