The authoritative regulation of the economic cooperative sector in the Volga region at the beginning of the XXth century
The article analyzes the process of formation and development of the cooperative movement in the Volga region at the beginning of the XXth century. The article observes the evolution of cooperative law, contradictory state policy regarding cooperative societies under conditions of the so-called military communism and the course of new economic policy. The article results in stating that the authorities aimed at controlling cooperative societies. The beginning of the 1930s showed that the cooperative sector got controlled by the state.