The Development of Legal Regulation of International Industrial Trade Exhibitions

Economic, scientific, and technical relations with foreign countries,¹ one form of which is international exhibitions, are an important aspect of the activity of the Soviet state. The origin of exhibits is associated with the rapid growth of capitalist industry in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Exhibitions of this period were, for the most part, of a national or regional character and took place under the aegis of conventional law.