During this uprising, the Cossacks claimed new territory and rights, but killed thousands of Jews, who were seen as connected to the Polish lords.
The most famous Cossack uprising took place under Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1648-1649. Periodically throughout history, the Cossacks would rise up against the dominant Polish overlords. Historically, these soldiers were mercenaries-rebels hired as soldiers-related to the famous Zaporozhian Cossacks, Ukrainian warriors who lived south of the Dnieper River in what is now central Ukraine beginning around the fourteenth century.
In the story collection Red Cavalry, Babel’s narrator Lyutov (like the author) finds himself in the army in the role of a reporter and propagandist whose function is to explain the Bolsheviks’ Marxist ideology to the illiterate soldiers in his unit.
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