The article undertakes the structural analysis of the cooperative forms of social and economic organization. Functional boundaries of different types and forms of cooperation are defined. The author also studies both subjective and objective factors of its genesis and development. Besides, the content of contradictions is disclosed. According to the author, these contradictions are the source of cooperative societies’ improvement.

cooperation, cooperation of social labor: artels, proletarian cooperatives, production cooperatives: simple and complex, subjective and objective factors of the genesis, contradictions as a source of development

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