In 1918, the Far East has received great fame Transbaikal Region student co-op, which reached its own accumulation of 4,5 thousand rubles. In the early years of War Communism, school cooperatives have developed rapidly due to the special privileges granted to them.

After the XIII Congress of the Party, when I started to be a new economic policy, the CEC and the CPC established cooperatives schoolboy great benefits. They used loans with low interest, preemptive right to purchase goods, reduced tariffs for transport. At the initiative of the Komsomol size of the unit fee when joining students in the consumer co-operatives have been reduced three times.

The measures taken ensured the massive development of the school co-operatives. According Centrosoyuz, only in 1924 were more than 1.5 thousand student cooperatives, which includes over 50 thousand children.

Particularly active cooperative network grew in the Moscow, Leningrad, Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan provinces in Siberia, the Far East, Ukraine and Belarus. For example, in the Moscow province worked 203 school co-op, which combined 16 thousand students. In Smolensk province student cooperatives operating in virtually every other school. Over 10 thousand students have worked in co-operatives in the North Caucasus. In 1925, children's cooperatives were combined to average 10 - 11% of the students, and eight separate schools - 40-50%.

School Co-operation in this period developed, mainly on the supply base. She helped provide children with educational literature, cheap notebooks, pens, pencils. There are instances when the school co-operatives decreased by half the price of books, gave them free use of the poorest children. In the largest co-operatives to organize sales of hot breakfast rolls, tea, created by student cooperative buffets and canteens.

Quite often, the school co-operatives merged. Unions were active school co-operatives in Novorossiisk and the city of Kaluga, in Izhevsk school offices operated cooperatives. Established in 1927 as a school Co-operative Union Velikiye Okrut Leningrad province has managed to not only achieve significant discounts on purchased for school cooperatives stationery, manuals and books, but also by creating his own loan fund, gave interest-free loans, has launched a movement for rational use of school land organized the supply of seeds, medicinal herbs, has established production and marketing of manufactured children toys.

Typically, promoters of school cooperatives were teachers or employees of the local cooperatives. Only in the late 20's., When the idea of ​​school cooperatives have become quite popular, there were cooperatives organized on the initiative of learners and their organizations.

Age limits and restrictions for the guys did not exist. Member of the school co-op could be any student. Model Rules only stipulated that, for example, the board and audit committee may be elected to the guys with 12 years of age. There were many co-operatives, and institutions of public education are often faced with the facts when they were created without their direct involvement. However, the statutes and regulations provide for cooperative management of them by the school board, but in practice it is left up to the care of one of the teachers.

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