The Soviet-style economies had cooperatives from their inception, and the only way the USSR kept agriculture going was by supplementing the kolkhoz system with private farming (which was much much much more productive). So I'm not sure what you're getting at here. ?
--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree. But this is where Russia failed, or didn´t it?
> -encouraging
> small innovative cooperatives- or was that part part of
> western
> propaganda?
>
> FC
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