Syniavska L. Heavy Industry of the Eastern and Southern Ukraine during the World War I.

The analysis of a wide range of sources, which are first introduced into scientific circulation was shown in the thesis. On the basis of an interdisciplinary approach impartial analysis of heavy industry in Eastern and Southern Ukraine during the First World War was made. The author detected the effect of measures which were aimed at strengthening the militarization of industry and government regulation of the economy for work of heavy industry enterprises in war conditions. Based on the analysis of a wide range of archive material for the first time in Ukrainian history the activities placed of marine enterprises in Ukraine of the World War I were highlighted.On the basis of behavioral analysis the ruling class efforts to modernize the transport system, adjustment of inflation, regulation of the energy market and employment in heavy industry of the Eastern and Southern Ukraine was highlighted. Indicated that the economy in war conditions acquired unprecedented proportions. Having established at the beginning of the war control over private railways, the Government has drawn and implementation, railways and other natural duties which size rapidly increased. The government of the Russian Empire chose the intervention of the state in economic development with the introduction of a number of emergency measures, among which are requisitioning, sequestration, confiscation were strengthened. But the strengthening of state intervention in the economy did not provide the expected results failed to stop the crisis, which intensified in the industrial development of the East and South of Ukraine. Reckless financial policy of the Russian Empire led to the rise of inflationary phenomena in scale, which led to the destruction of economic activity and led to the collapse of the state.