Гуманитарные и юридические исследования (Sep 2021)
V. I. DENISOV AND THE DON NOVELTY ACTIVITIES IN AGRICULTURAL COMPANIES DURING THE MODERNIZATION PROCESSES OF THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY
Abstract
The author has studied the participation of Don nobility in the organization and functioning of agricultural societies in the Don Cossacks region, identiied the contribution of the upper class in the development of agriculture in the region. The article describes the features of the activities of the Don nobility in agricultural societies, revealed the role of the leader of the nobility of the Don Cossacks region Vasily Ilyich Denisov in the creation and work of public organizations. It was revealed that the beginning of the twentieth century in the Don Cossacks region, economically progressive nobility, understanding the problems of the agrarian sphere and the need to carry out transformations in the conditions of modernization, became the initiator in the creation of a number of agricultural societies. The author concluded that in addition to addressing the issues of practical development of agriculture in the Region of the Don Army, issues of fundamental reform of the agrarian sector of the economy were relevant for the Don nobility. The example of V. I. Denisov shows that the upper class, united in agricultural societies, in resolving agrarian issues sought to take into account the peculiarities of the Don Cossack region as a Cossack region. However, the results had only fragmentary character and did not cover a signiicant part of the agricultural households of the Don. The author identiied the role of agricultural societies in the education and enlightenment of the Don region, which consisted in the creation of a number of primary agricultural schools, the production of specialized journals and literature for farmers. Agricultural societies in the Don in the context of the growth of reformist sentiment in the early twentieth century and the need to overcome the revolutionary crisis of 19051907 went far beyond the discussion of economic issues and raised issues of political nature. V. I. Denisov himself, in his speeches, pointed out that the impossibility of progress in the development of the economy came from the inability of government departments to solve urgent issues in a timely manner. Thus, the activities of the agricultural societies of the Don Cossacks region in the early twentieth century can be characterized as an important component in the formation of a civil society.
