Из истории сословно-корпоративной организации украинского предпринимательства в XVIII–XIX веках

Abstract

The article discusses the key aspects of the merchant guilds development in Ukraine that created economic, social and legal conditions for transformation of the merchants into an independent class and promoted the further national economy development. There are analyzed the factors which determined organization moments of this trans formation in the legal field of Russian empire and its contradictory consequences for Ukrainian entrepreneurship. The author presents the specific distribution of guilds and its differences from the European one, tells about historical development of merchant guilds and causes of their decline. He stresses their significant role in the rapid national entrepreneur class development in Ukraine.