Kalinichenko V. Institute of land society in pre-collective farm village of Naddnipryanska Ukraine (1917–1930)

Object: pre-collective farm village of Naddnipryanska Ukraine. Objective: to show the place, role and importance of the institute of land society in pre-collective farm village. Methods: synthetic, socio-psychological, analysis, systematization, genetic, typological, synchronous, diachronic, problem-chronological, comparative-historical, structural and systemic, dynamic. The thesis, for the first time in native historiography, represents a comprehensive study of the Institute of land society in pre-collective farm village of Naddnipryanska Ukraine in 1917-1930. It determines the level of scientific development of the problem, proves the absence of a comprehensive study of the given land institution, analyzes the source basis, demonstrates theoretical and methodological basis of the study. The process of transformation of the peasantry society in the land society was investigated. The structure, functions, authority and control, the number and size of land were determined. Material and financial resources of land societies and the way they are received were established. The role of the land society in the choice of forms of land use and organization of field crops was shown. It was found that the land society had signs of a vertical cooperative.