ARTISANAL SECTOR AND THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY OF THE NIZHNY NOVGOROD PROVINCE. CAUSES AND FACTORS OF OCCURRENCE, AND THE DRIVING FORCES OF DEVELOPMENT
This article deals with the problem of defining of handicraft industry. The main attention is focused on the analyses of conception and books written by V.I. Lenin, who defines handicraft industry as the earliest stage of the capitalism development in Russia. To solve the stated problem of the research - the determination of causes of the origin and further development of handicraft industry, - the author uses different methods to work with archival files. In the research the principle of historicism, scientific objectivity and scientific methods as analyses, synthesis, deduction and induction are used. The main method has become the method of the analysis of the source materials. The article comes to some conclusions on the archival files. The author decides that the geographical factor was the key reason of the handicraft industry development in Nizhny Novgorod province in the late XIX - early XX centuries.