Red Cossacks

Red Cossacks
Red Cossacks
Червоне Козацтво
Active	1918 – 1939
Country	Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, Ukrainian Soviet Republic and Ukrainian SSR
Allegiance	Russian SFSR
Branch	Red Army (RKKA)
Type	Cavalry
Size	Division, Corps (originally as regiment)
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner (1928), Order of Lenin (1934)
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Vitaly Primakov

The Red Cossacks (Ukrainian: Червоне козацтво, Russian: Червонное казачество) was a military formation of Bolsheviks and the Soviet government of Ukraine.^[2] Red Cossacks was a collective name for one of the biggest cavalry formations of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA) and was part of the Ukrainian, Southern, and Southwestern fronts during the Russian Civil War and later was stationed in the Ukrainian SSR.^[1]

According to Vitaly Primakov, the formation was created in protection of the Soviet government in Ukraine, the liquidation of the "nationalistic and counter-revolutionary" Central Council of Ukraine and as an opposing force to the Central Council's armed forces known as the "Free Cossacks".^[3]

^ ^a ^b Shchus, O. Red Cossacks (ЧЕРВОНЕ КОЗАЦТВО). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.
^ Shchus, O. Red Cossacks. Small dictionary of History of Ukraine.
^ Musiyenko, V. Red Cossacks of Ukraine. Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia.

[eohou-1] Shchus, O. Red Cossacks (ЧЕРВОНЕ КОЗАЦТВО). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.

[sdhu-2] Shchus, O. Red Cossacks. Small dictionary of History of Ukraine.

[use-3] Musiyenko, V. Red Cossacks of Ukraine. Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia.

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Red Cossacks
Червоне Козацтво
Active	1918 – 1939^[1]
Country	Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, Ukrainian Soviet Republic and Ukrainian SSR
Allegiance	Russian SFSR
Branch	Red Army (RKKA)
Type	Cavalry
Size	Division, Corps (originally as regiment)
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner (1928), Order of Lenin (1934)
Commanders
Notable commanders	Vitaly Primakov