War Without Fronts: Atamans and Commissars in Ukraine, 1917-1919
Journal: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University)
Year: 2013

The double Revolution of 1917 buried the old Romanov Empire without installing anything definite in its stead. It did, however, attenuate authority to the extreme, producing a climate propitious to the emergence of socio-political projects each with a claim upon the present and the future. One of such projects was the revolutionary warlordism known under the name of atamanshchina. Reaching greatest scope and complexity on the territory of modern-day Ukraine, this predominantly peasant phenomenon