Agrarian policy of the Ukrainian State on the journals of the meetings of the Council of Ministers

• Main Author: Arkhireyskyi, D. V.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University 2017-09-01
• Series: Vìsnik Dnìpropetrovsʹkogo Unìversitetu. Serìâ: Ìstorìâ ta Arheologìâ
• Subjects: Hetmanate; Agrarian reform; Land issue
• Online Access: http://www.via.dp.ua/index.php/VIA/article/view/261721

The information content of the journals (minutes) of the meetings of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian State (1918) is investigated, which makes it possible to clarify the specifics of governmental agrarian policy. Information on the influence of the German and Austro-Hungarian military command on the agrarian policy of Ukraine, the peculiarities of land ownership and agrarian relations, the food and price policy of the Ukrainian government, and attempts at agrarian and land reform are discussed. The journals of the meetings of the Council of Ministers contain information about the emergence of a peasant rebel movement, caused in general by the unsuccessful agrarian activity of Hetman P. Skoropadsky, and also about government measures aimed at suppressing this movement. The investigated documentary complex should be recognized as an important source on the history of not only the Ukrainian State, its agrarian policy, but also the insurrectional movement and the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917−1921 generally.