Interaction of the Mennonite Agricultural Cooperatives in Russia and Ukraine in the Years of New Economic Policy
Redkina Olga Yuryevna, Nazarova Tatyana Pavlovna, Morozova Natalia Vladimirovna
Volgograd State University
Volgograd State Agrarian University
Branch "Vzlet" of Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) in Akhtubinsk
Submitted: 13.07.2020
Abstract. The paper aims to identify specificity of interaction of the Mennonite agricultural cooperatives in Russia and Ukraine in the years of New Economic Policy. The article considers interaction of the All-Russian Mennonite Agricultural Union and the Mennonite agricultural cooperatives in Ukraine, justifies existence of mutually beneficial economic cooperation. Scientific originality of the study lies in the fact that the authors analyze activity of the Mennonite agricultural cooperation in the USSR in the 1920s, introduce new empirical material. The research findings are as follows: the authors prove that interregional interaction of the Mennonite cooperatives continued almost throughout the entire period of New Economic Policy, which makes them a unique socio-economic structure under the Soviet regime.
Key words and phrases: нэп, меннониты, сельскохозяйственная кооперация, Всероссийское меннонитское сельскохозяйственное общество, Союз потомков голландских выходцев на Украине, New Economic Policy, Mennonites, agricultural cooperation, All-Russian Mennonite Agricultural Union, Dutch Immigrants Descendants’ Union of Ukraine
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