The highlanders and the Cossacks of the Kuban the revolutionary events of 1917

Article updated features of the problem of social and political situation in the Kuban in the revolutionary events of 1917. Discusses the interactions of mountaineers and Cossacks of the Kuban during the revolutionary period of 1917, the national political organization "Union of mountaineers of the Caucasus". Analyzes the practical actions of this organization to create Gorsky national-territorial autonomy within the Russian Federative democratic Republic. Various unions and congresses have allowed the Circassians to more actively open up as ethno-political formation in the region. It should be noted that for the restoration of the all-Russian complex power structures at the regional level were created by political organizations. It is noted that the national question has become a Central question of public life for the Adighe intelligentsia; it has predetermined specific conditions for the existence of the Circassians. Self-determination and the possibility of creating conditions for preserving national cultural identity Circassian intellectuals felt in the new political circumstances. No doubt the fact that "bourgeois freedoms under the banner of which there was a change of power in Russia", gave the intelligentsia a national area of expectations associated with the organization of national life.