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A '''stanitsa''' ({{lang-rus|станица|p=stɐˈnʲitsə}}; {{lang-uk|станиця|stanytsia}}) is a village inside a [[Cossack host]] ({{lang-uk|військо|
While the word ''stanitsa'' survives in modern usage, the stanitsa as a social system in its historic context was effectively destroyed in the aftermath of the 1917 [[October Revolution|Russian revolution]], when the [[Russian Civil War]] (1917–1922) and subsequent [[Collectivisation in the USSR| collectivisation]] (1928–1940) of the land by the state in the [[Joseph Stalin| Stalin]]ist period and the [[Holodomor]] (1932–1933) destroyed the culture and the economic foundations of stanitsas.
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