The February bourgeois-democratic revolution, which won in Petrograd, quickly swept the whole country, including the Terek and Dagestan - this multilingual and multinational outskirts of Russia. The news of the overthrow of tsarism excited all segments of the population. Everywhere and everywhere the fashionable word at that time was pronounced - freedom. It was on the lips of the worker, and the poor peasant, and the largest landowner-cleric N. Gotsinsky, and the Cossack chieftain Karaulov. And everyone understood freedom in accordance with their class interests, putting their own meaning into this word. What classes, what social forces acted then on the Terek and in Dagestan?..