История казачества

This book was written by the Russian Cossack officer Andrei Gordeev (1886-?) who emigrated from Russia after the Civil war and died in Paris. The author’s perceptions and memories were not affected by official Soviet historical scholarship. It includes four chapters: Zolotaia Orda i Zarozhdenie Kazachestva; So Vremeni Tsarstvovaniia Ioanna Groznogo do Tsarstvovaniia Petra I; So Vremeni Tsarstvovaniia Petra Velikogo do Nachala Voiny 1914 Goda; Velikaia Voina 1914-1918 g. Otrechenie Gosudaria, Vremennoe Pravitel'stvo i Anarkhiia. Grazhdanskaia Voina. The first edition of the book was published under name "Istoriia Kazakov" in Paris in 1968. Bibliography to each chapter.