Agricultural cooperation and regional didtribution
Relevance and novelty of the work. Trends in the development of agricultural cooperatives in economic and territorial aspects are identified and analyzed. The purpose of the work. To characterize various aspects of cooperative forms in agriculture that contribute to the disclosure of the nature of cooperative organizations. Materials and methods. Archival materials and publications of the outstanding theorist and practitioner in the field of cooperation Ivan Vasilyevich Emelianoff were used. This article is based on the work of I.V. Emelianoff «Cooperation in agriculture», published in 1931 in the «A Systematic Source Book in Rural Sociology» by Pitirim Sorokin. The translation of Emelianoff’s work from English is published for the first time in Russia as presented by the authors of the article, who broadcast the analysis of the cooperative problem. The result. A certain characteristic of cooperative organizations in agriculture is proposed, the geographical distribution, importance in different countries, and the role in the agricultural sector are described.