The interrelations of cooperative organizations and political parties in the Middle Volga region in the beginning of XX century

The article is devoted to the problem of the relations between different cooperative organizations and political par-ties in the Middle Volga region in the beginning of XX century. The author concentrates primarily on the role of socialist-revolutionaries and social-democrats in cooperative movement. He argues that in the crucial days of Octo-ber revolution the Middle Volga cooperatives condemned the Bolsheviks' economical politics.