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The Splendor and Poverty of Russian Cooperation: How People Were Taught Modernity, 1860–1930

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The Splendor and Poverty of Russian Cooperation: How People Were Taught Modernity, 1860–1930
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What really distinguishes agricultural credit associations, consumer societies, and commercial artels as forms of the same economic phenomenon, the cooperative that arose in Russia on the wave of the Great Reforms? Why did governments in both pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russia support such a variety of cooperative enterprises? How did cooperatives attract representatives of diametrically opposed political currents? For the first time, Anna Safronova traces the history of Russian cooperation and the cooperative movement in its entirety, from their origins to the era of Stalin’s “Great Change”, and shows how various forms of cooperation adapted to sometimes incompatible economic conditions and models. According to A. Safronova, cooperative discourse was multifunctional and generally successfully followed the political objectives of the transformation of society. Learning to modern economic practices, ordinary members of cooperatives invested in them a completely different meaning than the state agents of modernization, so the disappointment of both society and the state in cooperation as a tool of reform characterized both the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods of Russian history.
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