Regional cooperative congresses in the organizational construction of Russian consumer cooperation and the development of public initiative in the early XX cent

Bolotova Elena Yur’evna

The article provides the analysis of the work of the regional cooperative congresses of the late XIX – early XX century and also defines their role in the development of cooperation and its institutional development, the improvement of cooperative practices in establishing horizontal and vertical connections in the Russian cooperative movement.

Keywords:Cooperation, cooperative movement, all-Russian and regional cooperative congresses