Dzhundiyet V. State-legal mechanism for preparation and implementation of the Agrarian Reform in Ukraine (1860's).

The Dissertation focuses on the problems ralated to the state-legal mechanism of preparation and implementation of the Agrarian Reform in Ukraine in the 1860's (also the Peasant Reform) as far as it concerns the organizational and legal support of the reform and the specific features of its preparation and implementation in different regions of the Russian Empire with dominant ethnic Ukrainian population. The three Sections, Introduction and Conclusions of the Dissertation offer the analysis of current researches into the problem and relevant literature to become the empirical basis for this Dissertation; as well as establish the basic tasks of the research, provide for methodological principles forming the foundation of the study, highlight essential elements of legislative practice, explore compliance of the process of drafting and adoption of the regulations concerning the Agrarian Reform with the provisions of the Code of Laws of the Russian Empire. The comparison was carried out on the basis of Part I, Volume I "Basic Laws and Statutes of the State" of the Consolidated Laws of the Russian Empire. The study reflects the most critical views of Russian and Ukrainian public and political figures on the developing political and socio-economic transformation. The research has discovered that the key policies of social and political transformations that were planned to be implemented in the state were revolutionizing: thus, at the beginning of the nineteenth century the socio-political giudelines were focused primarily on introduction of the constitutional monarchy in Russia, although starting with the mid-1850's Russian and Ukrainian nobility began to speak in support of socio-economic transformation, in particular, to the elimination of serfdom and changes in the Land Law.