Income of Russia’s Industrial Farms in the Years of the First World War

Relevance. This article is devoted to the problem of the profitability of landlord households in Russia during the First World War. By 1914, a significant part of the country's landlord economies had already switched to the capitalist path of development and were advanced economic entities. The advanced economic experience of landowners' activities can be useful at the present stage, when reforms are continuing in Russia, including in the agricultural sector. In addition, historical justice may triumph and the Soviet label of semi-feudal landlord economy should be removed, and the rich historical experience of landlord economy will be comprehensively and objectively evaluated.
The purpose the aim of the research is to study various items of income of landowners in Russia during the First World War.
Objectives we will formulate the main tasks of our scientific research as follows: to give an analysis of historical materials related to the structure of incomes of the landowners' households in Russia during the First World War; to present the dynamics of income of landowners and the vector of their economic development.
Methodology. The methodological basis of the research was the following: the principle of historicism; methods of objectivity and scientificness; chronological, historical and comparative approaches.
Results. The results of the scientific research made it possible to draw certain conclusions about the structure and dynamics of the incomes of the landowners' households in Russia during the First World War.
Conclusion thus, during the First World War, the incomes of the landowners' households in Russia showed a stable dynamics of growth in basic incomes despite the difficult historical period. The landowners demonstrated their economic viability and further economic prospects. Many of them significantly increased their income, regularly made payments on previous loans to Dvoryansky and other banks, and once again demonstrated their economic and economic necessity for the Russian economy.

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