Регіональна періодика як джерело з історії розвитку біржової справи України у другій половині ХІХ – на початку ХХ ст.

Abstract

The article analyzes information materials related to the development of the exchange business of Dnieper Ukraine in the second half of the XIX – early XX centuries, which in the period under study were published in the regional press of Odessa and Kyiv. The author notes that one of the least covered aspects in the study of the process of development of capitalist relations in Dnieper Ukraine in the second half of the XIX – early XX centuries. the activity of the leading exchange institutions in this period remains. The article notes that the mass of information that was published in the columns of the then regional periodicals, especially those that were published in the leading stock exchange centers of Ukraine, is practically out of the attention of Ukrainian scientists. The purpose of this article is to fill this gap and introduce into scientific circulation Ukrainian regional periodicals, which considered certain aspects of the activities of exchange institutions. As a result of the study, the author came to the conclusion that regional periodicals are a valuable source on the history of formation and development of stock exchange business in Ukraine in the second half of the nineteenth – early twentieth century. However, it is noted that the use of this type of documentary material in the process of scientific research requires the scientist to understand the important factors that influenced the submission of materials and their characteristics. First, it is important to determine the degree of interaction of a particular publication, which dealt with stock exchange affairs, with state and provincial authorities. If the official newspapers and magazines, as a rule, did not reveal the shortcomings of the current exchange system, the private press often contained critical articles on this issue. That is why a full-fledged study of the development of the stock market on the basis of the use of periodicals is possible only through a combination of different in nature and origin of publications. The author notes that each of the characterized sources has a different information potential and saturation. The analyzed materials cover various aspects of the development of stock exchange business in Ukraine in the study period. Therefore, a comprehensive combination of the entire layer of documentary materials is important for the full disclosure of the problem under study.