Deformation of cooperative idea in "Soviet" period and development of pseudo-cooperatives: the consequences for Ukraine

Abstract

In most countries of the world, cooperatives are a form of economic self-help organized to provide people with high-quality goods and services at competitive prices. However, the history of post-Soviet countries demonstrates the practice of developing and expansion of pseudo-cooperatives, which emerged as the result of authoritarian state interference in the affairs of classical cooperatives. Some specific organizations operated with a huge violation of cooperative principles were called cooperatives in the Soviet Union and some other countries influenced by communist ideology. Thus, this deformation process in the cooperative movement began at the earliest stage in the USSR.