Question

Who introduced the idea of cooperatives in in Russia?​

Answer 1

Answer:

With the rise of perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev, cooperatives took on renewed importance, emerging in the late–1980s as a principal structure for private economic activity.

Answer 2

Answer:

After 1917, Bolshevik policy alternated between tolerating cooperatives as voluntary organizations and making them into quasi-state organs. During war communism, cooperatives became adjuncts of the Commissariat of Supply, to which producers and consumers were required to belong.