Onipko T. Economic activities of Consumer Cooperatives in Ukraine during the New Economic Policy (1921–1928)

The object of the research: consumer cooperation of Ukraine in a context of socio-economic politics of the state in 1921-1928. The dissertation purpose – to carry out the complex analysis of historical experience of economic activity of consumer cooperation of Ukraine during the New Economic Policy (1921-1928). Methods: historical, analytic-synthetic, historiographycal, method of comparison; problem-chronological, historical-system, method of historical modeling, method of actualization; system-structural. Scientific novelty of the dissertation: the complex research of economic activity of consumer cooperation of USSR in the period of NEP is carried out; the generalizing analysis of activity of its such branches, as trade, preparations, industrial manufacture, the furnace of bread, public catering is carried out, their contribution to socio economic life of republic in 1921-1928 is characterized; the conclusion about internal self-sufficiency of consumer cooperation of Ukraine is made, is found out, that the basic source of financing of cooperative organizations were share payments of the members of consumer societies. Practical value: the materials of the dissertation can be used by preparation of works on a history of Ukraine; the offers on optimization of activity of consumer cooperation and harmonization of its relations with bodies of the central and local authority will be useful by cooperators, and also can be a point of issue in mass media. Sphere of use: higher educational institutions, sphere of consumer cooperation.