Discussions about the socialist and capitalist cooperation in the years of the New Economic Policy
The article discusses the process of transformation within the theory and practice of cooperation in Russia during the years of the New Economic Policy. The author argues that in the specific historical context of the time, the degeneration of cooperation was caused both by unhealthy speculation factors, and through the administrative pressure exercised upon cooperative structures, as well as through the subjugation of their activity to the tasks of the socialist construction.