Keyword: «consumer goods»

This article analyses the development of producers’ and invalids’ cooperation in the territory of Bashkiria in the 1930s. On the basis of documents from archives and published sources it discovers the role of producers’ and invalids’ cooperation in providing the republic residents with consumer goods; it also shows how effectively these organizations used local raw materials and industry wastes. The conclusion is made that within the planned economy frameworks in the late 1930s artels of producers’ and invalids’ cooperatives in Bashkiria were incorporated into the common industrial system.