The co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance and character . nia Chambers, Loudon Bridge,London, ), and of which the Siberian Union is one ofthe shareholders. Having gained a firm footing in the butt-er trade theidea of co-operation soon spreads to other industries. Oneafter another spring into existence—co-operative flourmills, oil mills, &c. Co-operative granaries make theirappearance, and co-operative credit and co-operative con-sumers societies develop into a powerful arm. CO-OPKRATION IN RUSSIA. 85 The butter artelts have recently taken root in EuropeanRussia, and we
The co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance and character . nia Chambers, Loudon Bridge,London, ), and of which the Siberian Union is one ofthe shareholders. Having gained a firm footing in the butt-er trade theidea of co-operation soon spreads to other industries. Oneafter another spring into existence—co-operative flourmills, oil mills, &c. Co-operative granaries make theirappearance, and co-operative credit and co-operative con-sumers societies develop into a powerful arm. CO-OPKRATION IN RUSSIA. 85 The butter artelts have recently taken root in EuropeanRussia, and we find them now in the provinces of Yaroslav,Vologda, and a few others, but here they are on a muchsmaller scale than in Siberia. The Moscow Union of Consumers Societies. The most important factors in the movement is theMoscow Union of Conuimers Societies, which is, practicallyspeaking, the central nerve of the Consumers Co-oiJerativeMovement in the whole of Russia. At the moment when the Moscow Union of Co-operativeSocieties was formed in 1898, the forces and ideas of. fcTj;AMi;U Co-Orj£RATOR, OF THE UnION OF THK SinEKiAN Ckeamei{v Association. co-operation were very weak in Russia. At first it waseven doubted whether tl^^ Union would be able to payits way, and the 18 societies which we^re the founders ofthe Union wexe confronted with the question where tofind premises for the new Union. However, in spite ofthe hard struggle it had to endure, the Union, after fiveyeai-s, was in such robust health that it couhl pii))lisli itsown jiaper, Thr fliioN of Cdiisi/hk rs. Little by liUle tlie 86 co-on-nATToN in urssu. Union extended its operations, and, doing away with com-missions, started buying on its own. At the beginning of1911 the Union acquired its own premises and greit impetus to this sueces^sful development of theUnion was provided by the first All-Russian Co-operativeCongress, organised and convened by the Union in activity of the Union is on the up g
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