ТRADE PRODUCTS OF THE LIGHT INDUSTRY IN THE OVER DNIEPER UKRAINE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIXTH – THE EARLY XXTH CENTURY

Abstract

The article
deals with the trade in light industry in
the Over Dnieper Ukraine in the second
half of the XIXth – the early XXth century.
Тhe problems of foreign and home trade of
Ukraine are described in the system of the
all-Russian market. The works of the researchers
of economic history regarding to
the subject of trade of the given period have
been analyzed. It was pointed out that basic
products which had a stable demand, The
formation and development of the network
of permanent and periodic trade, the diversity
of trade establishments has been studied.
It was established that trading operations
of consumer goods were an integral
part of economic activity of Ukraine and
one of the most important source of getting
profi t. They strengthened the state economic
security at the external level and they were
the instrument of increasing competitiveness
of home production. The researches are devoted to the different
issues of economic history: the sources
of the history of the development of internal
trade in Ukraine in the 60th–90-th of the
XIXth century; the market and fair trade
in Ukraine during the period of capitalism;
industrial monopolies; domestic trade in
Ukraine in the early 20th century; the role
and place of cooperation in internal trade in
Ukraine; monopolies in the light and food
industry in the late XIXth – the early XXth
century; commodity exchange in the Russian
Empire.
The researches are devoted to the different