Kulikov V. Farm of the Kharkiv province in the second half of the XIXth - in the beginning of the XXth century

The object of research - farm of the Kharkiv province in the second half of the XIXth - in the beginning of the XXth century. The purpose of work is to give the all-round complex characteristic of farm of the Kharkiv province in the second half of the XIXth - in the beginning of the XXth century. The methods used in the research are: principles of scientism, interdisciplinary, epistemological optimism, system; historical-genetic, historical-typological, historical-system methods and structural analysis; methods of mathematical statistics. The practical value of work consists in use of materials of the dissertation by development of lectures courses on a history of Ukraine; by preparation special courses and special seminars on social-economic history. Thesis is dedicated to integral historical research of the farm in the Kharkiv province in the second half of the ХІХth - in the beginning at the XXth century. Based upon various sources, first of all, mass statistical sources, the demographic characteristic of the country population and its influence on productive and economic activity of a farm has been given; the balance of the farming labor has been analyzed; the role of the rural community and the country land community and their basic functions has been investigated; the material resources condition, as well as the efficiency of the usage has been examined; the agricultural production of a farm has been investigated; social and economic system of the farm has been determined, the imitating-prognostic model of country agricultural production has been constructed.