ABSTRACT

Ihor Zhaloba Introduction: Raising an issue Soviet historical science, including that of the Ukraine, paid scant attention to the persons who were involved in economic activity. A vulgar Marxist approach produced a social and economic history that was devoid of personalities, conjuring up antagonist classes struggling with each other amid constantly increasing productivity. There’s no doubt that in reality everything was ambiguous and more complicated. Since the 1980s, during the period of warming under the leadership of Michail Gorbachev, articles dedicated to different entrepreneurs started to appear in various periodicals. This process was simultaneous to the shedding of light on a range of famous political actors whose names had been veiled and kept secret. Unfortunately, researchers still do not pay enough attention, or give enough credit, to the lives of those whose work and entrepreneurial activity made a great input to enhancing the economic capacity of Bukovina and Galicia; that is to say, people who developed manufacturing, built factories and railways, made innovations in agriculture, facilitated shipping on the Vistula and Dniester, et cetera. This work is aimed at remedying, at least partially, this situation.