Bilivnenko S. Sources related to the history of Southern Ukraine's tax farmings of the last quarter of the XVIII century - the beginning of the XIX century.

The dissertation is a first research of the sources related to the history of Southern Ukraine's tax farmings of the last quarter of the XVIII century - the beginning of the XIX century. The source studies' historiography of the tax farmings' history was analyzed in the thesis. The movement of sources of the history of Southern Ukraine's tax farmings and the directions of assigning documents to fonds were defined. The basic archival documentary sources related to the history of Southern Ukraine's tax farmings were described. The species diversity of documentary and written sources of the tax farmings' history was considered. The classification of the primary sources was realized. The informative potentials of the actualized base of the sources concerning the particularities of tax farmings system's development in the Southern Ukraine at the last quarter of XVIII century - the beginning of XIX century and unification of tax farmings' sphere of the Southern Ukraine's economic were investigated.