RUSSIA. 



THE CENTRAL CO-OPERATIVB UNION OF FI^AX GROWERS. 



SOURCES : 



Makaruk: (I.) SeMCKaa fl'feHTejibHOCTB no noAHflTiio ii pasBHTiio jii>HOBOj!;cTBa 



(The Zemstvo's Activity for the Development and Production of Flax) in SeMCKoe JX^Jio 



{The Work of the Zemstvo) No. 20, Petrograd 1912. 

 Maslov: (S.) DleHTpaJibHOe ToBapHmecTBO JibHOBOj^OB't. {The Central Co-operative 



Union of - Flax Growers) in Nestnik Kooperazii (The Messenger of Co-operation) No. 6, 



Petrograd, July 191 6. 

 MiCHAiLOV : KOOnepaTHBHOMT. cSHTi JiBHa (The Co-operative Sale of Flax), in Vestnik 



Kooperazii (The Messenger of Co-operation), No. 9. Petrograd, December 1914. 

 Maslov: (S) yTpe'/Kfleme n,eHTpajibHaro o6mecTBa jii>hobo;i;obi> bi> Mocks'^ (2'^ie 



Organization of the Central Co-operative Union of Flax Growers), \rx Vestnik Kooperazii, 



Nos. 9, 10. Petrograd, December 191 5. 

 B : KoonepaTHBHuit Cffes^i'b ji£,hobo^obi> (The Co-operative Congress of Flax Growers) 



in Vestnik Kooperazii, No. 7. Petrograd, September 191 6. 

 *** : Htofh nepBaro ro^a A^HTejiBHOCTH n;eHTpajiBHaro o6in,eeTBa jibhobo^ob'b 



(The Balance-sheet for the First year of Business of the Central Co-operative Union of Flax 



Growers), in Vestnik Kooperazii, No 10. Petrograd, December 1916. 

 Sly.schkov (I.): JlbaHBia onepaii;iH b-b apocJiaBCKofl: ry6epHiH (Operations in Flax 



in the Province of Jaroslav), in B'fecTHHK'B MejiKaro KpeflHTa (The Messenger of 



Small Credit) No. 3, Petrograd, 1917. 

 *** : PbiSuHCKiii KOOnepaxHEHMfi coros-B (The Co-operative Union of Rybinsk), in 



Vestnik Melkago Kredita (The Messenger of Small Credit), No. 45, 1916. 

 Kalinsky: (B.) I^-feHBi Ha ceJiBCKO-xosafiCTBCHHiie npojiyKTBi (The Prices of Agricultural 



Products), in Zemledeltcheskam Gazeta (The Journal of Agriculture), No. 9, igi6. 

 Tciiavanov : The Central Society of Pias Growers, in The Russian Co-operator, No. i. I,ondon, 



December 191 6. 

 *** : The Co-operative Export of Flax, in The Russian Co-opera tor, No. 2. lyondon , Febmary 



1917. 

 Grinenco : II lino russo ed il suo posto nella produzione, uel commcrcio e nell'industria mon- 



diale del luio (Russian Flax and its Place in the World's Flax Production, Trade and 



Industry) in Monitore italo-russo {Italo-Russian Monitor) No. i. Rome, January 1917) 

 ♦** : npon3BO;];CTBO JiBHa 3a rpaHnnefi (The Production of Flax Abroad) in Vestnik 



Fi^ansov (The Messenger of Finances), No. 44. Petrograd, October 1916. 



The most salient fact in the history of the Russian co-operative move- 

 ment in the last two 3'ears is the formation of the Central Co-operative Union 

 of Flax Growers which groups almost all the co-operative associations for 

 the sale of flax in European Russia. 



The exceptional importance of this co-operative organization depends 

 on the fact that flax growing is one of the most notable branches of Russian 



