The relationship between the Ukrainian burshers and the cossacks at the beginning of the sixteenth century: overcoming of social conflict (on the example of cherkasy mayors)
Journal: Scientific Bulletin of the Izmail State University of Humanities Section «Historical sciences»
Year: 2021

The main problem of this article is the peculiarities of social relations between the Cossacks and the burghers of the border areas of Ukraine in the first half of the sixteenth century. The formation of the Cossack state is a complex multi-vector process, which was studied by leading Ukrainian scientists N. Yakovenko, V. Shcherbak, S. Lepyavko, V. Brekhunenko. Most of them agree that the main source of formation of the Cossacks in the early stages of its existence was part of the urban populati