Cossacks as an historical phenomena and the problem of their ethnical and social identity. Review of the educational theses over the last few years
In this research the author analyses all the treatments of the Cossackss phenomena appeared in the postgraduate and doctoral theses in the Russian educational science over lasr few years. The Cossackss renaissance viewed in the contemporal Russian history attracts the large scientific and public interest. The problem taking the central stage in the contemporal historiography is the Cossackss ethnical and social identity. The author shows that this matter is the determinant for treatments of the Cossackss phenomena not only among historians but among teachers too. As in the historical science educational researchers can be divided into two basic parties. The scientists in the first one suppose the Cossacks the separated ethnic group while the others characterize them as sociocultural phenomena inside of Russian culture.