On Cooperation

Implications and Applications

• Lenin's book «On Cooperation» underscores the importance of the cooperative movement as a means for transitioning to socialism, which was practically applied in the Soviet Union through the creation and support of various cooperatives in agriculture and industry.
• Lenin's ideas on cooperation facilitated the development of collective farms (kolkhozes) in the USSR, forming the basis for the collectivization of agriculture.
• Cooperatives, as described in the book, were used to unite small producers and peasants, which in practice helped in the centralized distribution of resources and products.
• Lenin's concept of cooperation influenced the development of consumer cooperatives, which provided the population with essential goods under a planned economy.
• The book emphasizes the role of cooperation in economic education and raising mass consciousness, which was practically realized through the education and involvement of the population in the cooperative movement.