The Terek Cossacks and the Power in a Crisis in 1921

Russian total crisis, which grew throughout 1920 and began in the spring of 1921, had defi ned the Soviet state position with respect to the Sunzha Cossacks. The consequence of economic disaster could be a famine of the peoples of the North Caucasus region, so the government changed the priorities. It abandoned the former ideological and created a new political line with respect the Cossacks. The objective information about the situation in the North Caucasus had been obtained from the analysis of letters from the Sunzha residents. The activities of land and food committees has helped to clarify this information. The Cossacks Delegations passed this information during the visits to the Central Executive Committee. This information was useful to determine the economic signifi cance of the Cossack farms. The Cossacks were the fi rst who laid the grain production in the region and created the agricultural processing industry. Thus the eviction of the Cossack villages destroyed agricultural production. In addition, the motives of the Cossacks eviction had been identifi ed: they were evicted to create new administered territories by ethnicity. And in the period of the NEP Decossackization became unprofi table and dangerous for the state, so it has gone on temporary assignment.