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When the endemic ethnic conflict escalated into civil war in December 1917, there was a widespread Cossack revolt against the government of the Host. The rebellious Cossacks wanted an alliance with the third element of the Terek Region's population, the Russian immigrants (particularly with the urban soviets), in order to inflict a decisive military defeat on the mountaineers.","While some Terek Bolsheviks favored cooperation with the rebellious Cossacks, Kirov preferred an alignment with the mountaineers. After the February Revolution, Kirov had supported unification with the Mensheviks and cooperation with the local organs of the Provisional Government to secure the gains of the revolution. Although he was subsequently obliged to abandon this strategy, the outbreak of civil war in late 1917 created conditions in which his willingness to cooperate with sympathetic non-Bolsheviks could thrive again. 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