ABSTRACT
The 1696-8 Transbaikalian rebellion has long been virtually ignored, except for Kudriavtsev’s study striving to describe it as a peasants’ war.1 Aleksandrov and Pokrovskii’s book published in 1991 has provided a more detailed account of this rebellion, portraying the uprising of the western Transbaikalian Cossacks as one of the most organized and purposeful risings in early modern Russia, aiming at nothing less than securing the final expulsion of the voevodas from Siberia. While being elicited by a situation common to Siberia, it intended to establish the self-administration of the voisko.2
