FORMATION OF A NEW MODEL OF RATIONAL AGRICULTURE MANAGEMENT BY YEVHEN CHYKALENKO

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to elucidate a personal experience of an efficient agriculture management by Yevhen Chykalenko based on the advanced technologies of the industrial relations organization at the time and conveying it to rural agriculturers. The research methodology is based on a scientific basis with the application of the following research principles: historical reliability, objectivity, systematicity, scientific comprehensiveness, complexity, multifactoriality. The folowing research methods have been applied: general scientific – analytical, synthetic and logical; historical – problem chronological, comparative historical, historical genetic, retrospective and periodization; interdisciplinary – structural systemic, source and terminological analysis. The goal achievement was due to a complex use of the research principles and methods in combination with sources. The Scientific Novelty. On the basis of the involved array of sources and newly discovered publications, the application of current methodological approaches, the system of factors that formed Yevhen Chykalenko as a multifaceted personality has been highlighted; the periods of life that consistently formed his national consciousness have been researched. There have been determined the reasons for Yevhen Chykalenko’s search of a new model of agriculture management, its transformation into a highly profitable one. Emphasis has been put on his activity in the Ukrainian agriculture general development. The Conclusions. Due to the study on Yevhen Chykalenko’s formation of a new model of a rational agricultural management, it was possible to spot an extraordinary personality in many activities. Our idea is the following: his reformation of an agricultural activity in the economy and introduction into labour and economic relations of the share management set him apart from the mass of landowners, he is not recepted as a typical landowner, since the estate was managed by a specially trained manager. Prykazhchyky (a hired employee who supervised some part of a farm, performed various economic tasks or managed the farm) in their turn, provided a daily communication with the peasants tenants of the land. Earned money in agriculture was spent on public affairs, charity, publishing and journalistic activities, cultural promotion (in Ger. – Kulturträger) in agriculture.