Durnov Y. The Bar Association in Ukraine: Historical and Legal Research (late XIX-XX centuries)

The author of the paper on the basis of the study of scientific literature, legislative and other normative and legal acts, normative sources, processing of archival materials, has carried out a systematic historical and legal analysis of the functioning of the Bar Association of Ukraine in the late XIX-XX centuries. The information about the features of the Bar Association’s status in the conditions of different political regimes has been researched and systematically provided. The scientific periodization of the formation and development of the Bar of Ukraine has been substantiated; the role and place of the Bar Association in the imperial period, in the process of the formation of Soviet power on the territory of Ukraine have been revealed; the main ideological aspects of the Bar’s activity at the initial stage of the formation of Soviet statehood in Ukraine have been also highlighted. From the standpoint of historical and legal comparative analysis, the author has presented the peculiarities of the process of creating the Bar Association system in the late XIX – early XX centuries, in the days of the new economic policy (1921-1929) and its corresponding organizational and legal support; has traced the main tendencies of the evolution of the Bar Association system in the period of establishing the Soviet administration-by-fiat system, when Ukraine participated in the Second World War and during the post-war period.