The article analyzes the main historical category – the «primitive accumulation of capital». The profound deformation of the Social Studies’ domestic model that occurred in recent decades has not practically effected this postulate, which has been replicated in new academic and educational literature in the same tradition way, worked out in famous Chapter 24 of Das Capital. Such interpretation of the primitive accumulation, which had not been a subject of criticism for a century, was not originally undeniable to its creators. In the last third of the last century statistical surveys of individual European scholars showed the discrepancy of several provisions of Marxist classic ideas to the established facts. However, despite the discovery of the fact of the vulnerability of the dominant version of primitive accumulation, the critical wave representatives did not create its coherent alternative. According to the authors’ opinion, the perspectives of large-scale urgent revision of the theory of primitive accumulation are primarily associated with the in-depth study of the history of the North Italian capitalist enclave in medieval Europe. Financial boost during its decline dramatically accelerated the commercialization of Western Europe, including the «land of classical capitalism». At the same time regional recurrences of this phenomenon in the XX century (that is best described as «quasi-primitive accumulation») deserve special attention. The authors propose to use the conceptual issues of the modern worldsystem analysis that arise from Fernand Braudel’ works interpretation as a methodological basis.