What Is a Cossack?

An attempt at providing a more nuanced answer and setting up context for future videos that will be developed on the massive topic of What is a Cossack/ Who were/are they?

Here I try my best to show that the answer is both more simple and convoluted than one could imagine.

The Three Following Links are for mentioned sources for understanding What Cossacks were at given times in History.:

The warrior Cossacks of Ukraine - BBC News - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1k1hQQNfpg

History Of The Cossacks Until World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kLAvspuOJU

History of the Ukrainian Cossacks - Історія українського козацтва https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpMKXZOmTL0

Some Academic Articles:

Grau W. , Lester. 1993. “The Cossack Brotherhood Reborn: A political/military Force in a Realm of Chaos” Low Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement Vol. 2, No. 3

Peter Burns Key Timeline Points http://www.returnofkings.com/58673/how-to-be-masculine-like-the-zaporozhian-cossacks

Toje, Hehe. 2006. “Cossack Identity in the New Russia: Kuban Cossack Revival and Local Politics.” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.58, No.7, pp. 1057-177. Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/20451288

Artists Featured:

IonChirita - http://ionchirita.deviantart.com/art/Cossack-493251796

Jozef Brandt: A Camp of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Ilia Repin: The Zaporozhian Cossacks Write a Letter to the Turkish Sultan
As always feedback is very much needed and welcomed, I still struggle with my english and getting caught up with proper pauses and not saying um because in Ukrainian we use a word Alle all the time as a space filler and to show that one is thinking, it is akin to how westerners use "like" I will continually do my best to make conscious efforts to purge this from my speech!

None the less This video is no where near what I would like it to be but it needed to be made so that the plethora of much better and shorter and exciting videos can be made on the topics I really like to and am capable of talking about.

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