Description:
Purpose: consider the problem of «decossackization» as a complex, multilayered process, which involves several intertwining and overlapping content areas Methodology: methodological basis of research are the standard principles of a historicism and the objectivity, assuming the concrete historical approach to the analysis of events in their dialectic development Results: discovered several content areas of the problem of «decossackization»: «ethnic decossackization», «social estate decossackization», «inside the social estate decossackization», «decossackization yourself», «revolutionary terror» Practical implications: results of research can be interesting to the experts who are taking up the problems of development of the Cossacks