Pryjmak O. Social History of the peasantry of the South of Ukraine in the finish XIX - beginning XX centuries.

The author defines the place and role of the peasantry in the social space of South Ukraine. The social aspects of agricultural policy of the imperial government of the late XIX - early XX centuries are characterized. The thesis analyzes the nature (essence) and content of social experiments conducted in the provinces of Southern Ukraine in the Agricultural sector. The author describes the feature of polystructural properties, stratification and mobility of the local peasantry and investigates its historical forms of social organization. The dissertation develops the typology and defines the essence of the institutional framework regulating everyday behavior, status and role relationships of South Ukraine peasants, as well as social image and model portraits last in the thesis are reconstructed.