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The Cossack uprisings (also kozak rebellions, revolts) were a series of military conflicts between the Cossacks and the states claiming dominion over the territories they lived in, namely the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth [1] and Russian Empire [2] during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
The Khmelnytsky Uprising, [a] also known as the Cossack–Polish War, [3] or the Khmelnytsky insurrection, [4] was a Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which led to the creation of a Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine.
The Cossack units, however, refused to participate in the suppression of the uprising, and Ataman Kaledin was forced to turn to General M. V. Alekseyev for help. A detachment of officers and cadets of 400-500 bayonets was hastily formed, joined by Don youth – high school students, cadets, and later several Cossack units.
The Pavliuk uprising of 1637 was a Cossack uprising in Left-bank Ukraine and Zaporizhia headed by Pavlo Pavliuk against the abuses of the nobility and magnates of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The uprising was sparked by several Cossacks expelled from the Cossack Registry .
Stepan Timofeyevich Razin (Russian: Степа́н Тимофе́евич Ра́зин, pronounced [sʲtʲɪˈpan tʲɪmɐˈfʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈrazʲɪn]; c. 1630 – June 16 [O.S. June 6] 1671), known as Stenka Razin (Сте́нька [ˈsʲtʲenʲkə]), [a] was a Don Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and tsarist bureaucracy in southern Russia in 1670–1671.
The Ostryanyn uprising (Ukrainian: Повстання Острянина) was a 1638 Cossack uprising against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.It was sparked by an act of the Sejm (legislature) passed the same year that declared that non-Registered Cossacks were equal to ordinary peasants in their rights, and hence were subjected to enserfment.
The Zaporizhian Sich served as a refuge for Cossacks fleeing the Hetmanate as it had been prior to Khmelnytsky's uprising. After 1735 Cossacks that were not part of starshyna, were split into Elected Cossacks (Ukrainian: виборні козаки) and Helper Cossacks (Ukrainian: підпомічники). Cossack privileges were preserved ...
Cossack uprisings — in the Russian Empire, Ukraine, and eastern Poland ... Khmelnytsky Uprising; Kiev Cossacks insurrection; Koliivshchyna; Kosiński uprising; M.