Zholobova, G.A. Russian mechanism for the legal regulation of trade of flax and hemp in the 2nd half of XIX and early XX centuries.

Abstract: The article concerns topical problems of organization of agricultural trade in the condition of freedom of entrepreneurship within the framework of the historical aspect of the Russian reality in the 2nd half XIX — early XX centuries. The object of studies involves the process of purposeful influence of the state upon the relations in the sphere of trade in flax and hemp with the help of legal norms, as provided for in the legislative acts of the 2nd half XIX and early XX centuries, as well as the legal relations themselves. The chronological framework of the study involve the period starting from 1881 to 1913, as the time when the Great Bourgeois reforms were over and the free trade developed within the “freedom of trades” principle. At this period of time the Government of the Russian Empire has once again paid attention to the need for the public interference of the state into the flax and hemp trade in order to resolve the most acute of its problems. Analysis of normative legal acts and studies of the archive documents of the Russian Empire, which are brought by the author into the scientific turnover for the first time, have allowed to single out the historical specificities of the Russian mechanism of legal regulation of trade in flax and hemp. The author discusses its main agenda, among which the central place was held with the fight with the falsifying these goods, the author analyzed the measures aimed at the resolution of these problems and conclusions are made regarding their efficiency level.

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