Participation of the Cossacks in the activity of peasant committees of public mutual aid in don and Kuban territories in 1921 - 1927

The article considers the participation of the Don and Kuban Cossacks in the activity of peasant committees of public mutual aid. The influence of the Bolshevik Party’s policy in the village on the personal interest of the Cossacks in the development of the committees is analyzed. The comparative description of the Cossacks participation in the activity of the committees at the beginning and in the middle of the 1920s is presented.