Russian Cooperation Movement After the Collapse of the USSR: Problems and Perspectives

The main purpose of this article is to consider the causes of the collapse of the late Soviet cooperative system with the collapse of the USSR and its prospects at the present stage. Having survived the crisis stage in the era of initial capital accumulation of the 1990s, Russian cooperation now has a number of successes in the field of agriculture. However, it is obvious that without solving numerous common problems of doing business in the country, including relieving in some cases profitable cooperative enterprises from appropriating a narrow circle of corrupt individuals, it will be very difficult to achieve a stable and confident growth of the cooperative movement in the country.