Russian Cossacks
1996) led to the process of revival of the Cossack went beyond the social movement. Cossack organizations have official status, the ability to coordinate activities at the federal level. The Cossacks were granted the right to carry the public service, including military, customs, nature protection. Of course, that society is interested in the possibilities of adapting to a resurgent Cossacks current conditions, finding the best ways to use it. What niche will take the Cossacks in the Russian state and society of the XXI century? What is the Russian Cossacks in the past and present? That, strictly speaking, we are actively 'Revive' and trying to 'use'? These issues are the researchers, the townsfolk, Cossacks themselves for centuries.
LN Tolstoy said that the Cossacks have created a Russia that every man would like to become a Cossack. Many historians, writers, Cossacks themselves were asked questions about the origin of the Cossacks, that is the same as the Cossacks phenomenon in world history? It appears that the Cossacks should be regarded as a military community – multiethnic social community, formed in the border area – the frontier, the distinguishing feature of which is the military profession as the main occupation. Virtually all countries in the period of feudalism there were various paramilitary groups performing specific functions related to military service in the broadest sense. These groups can be attributed rekonkistadorov on the Iberian Peninsula; knights in Switzerland Gaidukov, Cleft, granichar Balkans haydamaks in Ukraine; Gurkhas in India, the samurai in Japan, etc.
