Peasant cooperatives of the Tambov governorate in the first half of the 1920s

Importance. The focus is on peasant cooperation that is determined by the role of small peasant production in the agriculture of the region under study. Consideration of cooperatives as the most unique phenomenon in Russia and the most common economic models is deyermined by the relevance of modern social production and consumption.Materials and methods. The study used published and unpublished sources. Along with general scientific methods, this study widely used a quantitative method for analyzing quantitative indicators and constructing numerical characteristics of phenomena and processes.Results and Discussion. The position of the Tambov peasant cooperatives during the transition to the new economic policy is shown. The main types and tendencies of its development, features of the organization and directions of activity are determined. The mechanisms of interference of party bodies in the economic activity of the cooperatives are revealed.Conclusion. In the Tambov governorate, the agricultural cooperation was the economic organization that provided considerable support to the peasantry. In the early 1920s there was a slow and difficult process of restoring of the main types of peasant cooperatives in the Tambov province. Along with the improvement of the work of the cooperatives, there was an intensification of the interference of Party organs in its work, in its long-term planning and operational activities.