Fighting Against Embezzlement in Cooperative Trade in Bashkiria in the Second Half of the 1930s
This article considers archive documents, which have never been scientifically analyzed before, dealing with the reasons for the growth of property and official crimes in cooperative trade in Bashkiria in the second half of the 1930s. It studies the role of cooperatives and law-enforcement authorities in fighting against embezzlement. It pays particular attention to the effectiveness of preventive work, the speed and quality of embezzlement cases investigation. The study has found out that there was a whole set of factors that contributed to the growth of embezzlement. On the one hand, the personnel policy in the consumers' cooperation system together with the low qualifications of auditing commissions members created a fertile ground for the growth of property and official crimes in cooperative trade. On the other hand, the poor results of the work of law-enforcement agencies in Bashkiria did not allow achieving the recovery of money from convicts, which led cooperative trading bodies in many areas of Bashkiria into a very hard financial situation.