The co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance and character . ogether with the 200 Unions working on the basis ofprivate agreements, there are now in Russia 300 , three types may be distinguished :— (1) Unions of Co-operative Credit Societies. (2) Unions of Co-ojoerative Consumers Societies. (3) Unions of the Co-operative Wholesale Societies for the supply of the needs of agriculture andindustries, and for the sale of agriculturalproduce anfl of manufactures. Unions of Credit Societies. The Unions of Credit Societies cover various cover only one
The co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance and character . ogether with the 200 Unions working on the basis ofprivate agreements, there are now in Russia 300 , three types may be distinguished :— (1) Unions of Co-operative Credit Societies. (2) Unions of Co-ojoerative Consumers Societies. (3) Unions of the Co-operative Wholesale Societies for the supply of the needs of agriculture andindustries, and for the sale of agriculturalproduce anfl of manufactures. Unions of Credit Societies. The Unions of Credit Societies cover various cover only one district, others cover several districts, CO-OPERATION IN RUSSIA. 63 others, again, a whole province, and a few cover evenseveral provinces, as for instance, the Kiev and MoscowUnions of Small Credit. The chief object of these Unions being the supply ofcredit, it is natural that each Union should show atendency of covering as large an area as is is considered that, according to locality, one union, ortwo at the utmost, is uonual for a. ]irovince. The head-. Clr. A. 15ARANOVSKV, ([iiarters of the l^nion are usually in the chief town of they)r()vinee, or in its most important centre. The Unions for co-operative purchase iim\ sale aicweak in Russia, and, thcf(foie, the If^nions of CreditSocieties usually perfoini Ihcir fimctions. hiiying jmiiciil-tural implements and macliinery, and selling agi iciili iiialproduce. For the ])iu))ose of coordiind ing and iiniliiigtheir operations, all 1 lie of (o-operative (Vedilhave their one centic the Mosaxn Karodiiji Ixiiil:. 64 CO-OPERATION IN RUSSIA. In Juh, 1015, Russia had 11 Unions of ro-operativeCredit^ Societies at Berdyansk, Melitopol (both inthe south of Russia) ; Kiev, Kuban, Stavropol, Tersk(the last three in the Caucasus) ; Nijni-Novgorod,Ekaterinoslav. Kkaterinburg, Slatoust (the last twoin the Urals) : PJotzk (Poland). Up to 1911 the Unions of Credit Societies had no rightto accept deposits : their operat
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