THE REVOLUTION OF 1917 AND COOPERATION                           

Ivanov Alexander Valeryevich, Candidate of historical sciences, associate professor, sub-department of Russian history, Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University, blagovalex@yandex.ru 

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The article analyzes processes of social, economic and political activity of cooperation under conditions of revolutionary changes during the period from February till October 1917. Cooperators welcomed tsarism overthrow. They saw elimination of any barriers in disintegration of the obsolete regime on the way of development of cooperative movement. The main task for cooperation those days consisted in political strike for democratic reforms. However, renovation of Russia and cooperation was accompanied by exclusively heavy conditions of the wartime and accruing economic and political crisis. 

cooperation, cooperative movement, war, autocracy, revolution, economic crisis, political crisis.