Date archives "February 2018"
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Georgia’s Brief Moment of Cooperative Autonomy
Financial co-operatives also spread, with a membership of 150,000 by the end of 1917, accelerated with the founding of a Co-operative Bank the following year. In rural villages, private traders declined, on one survey from 2,071 to 1,479, as co-operatives moved “to take the places vacated by private capital”.
The Co-operative Union, Tsekavschiri, created an education department in 1920, to spread the ideas of co-operation. In his 1922 book on the co-operative movement in Georgia, J. Tsagareli wrote that “the people have been taught by their own experience and practice what co-operation is capable of achieving, and what it was able to accomplish under the most trying conditions.”
From The Experiment: Georgia’s Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921, Eric Lee, Zed Books
More on the Georgian revolution: Democratic Republic of Georgia – Wikipedia
Image courtesy Wikipedia.
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