The communist party in the struggle for the involvement of peasants in the cooperative movement in the 1920s (on the materials of Simbirsk province)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the policy of Bolsheviks in the sphere of political education of the rural population in the 1920s. Local (Simbirsk/Ulyanovsk) authorities carried out a large and varied work on explanation the decisions of the congresses and conferences of the Communist Party, on promotion of the new economic policy, its content. They revealed the new purpose of cooperation in revival of the national economy. As a result, the Ulyanovsk provincial Communist Party organization reached a certain improvement in the work of cooperation and in terms of strengthening cooperation of the poor, and in terms of improvement of social and party composition of the governing bodies of cooperation.