The forming of cooperation’s legislation in the USSR in 1986 – first half of 1988

Chudetckii Aleksandr Nickolaevich

Cooperatives were remarkable innovation in the Soviet economy of the second half of 1980s and had a great role in the transition to the market economy. Authorities had to form the cooperative’s legislation. The article attempts to consider the process of cooperation’s legislation forming in1986 – first half of 1988 as a sequential process from the “experiment” to the new law “About the cooperation in the USSR” in 1988.

Keywords:deficit, cooperatives, cooperation, Perestroika, consumer market