16 OCTOBER 1920, Page 21

Co-operation in Soviet Russia. By Z. Stencel.Lensky. (Co-operative Printing Society.) — This

pamphlet, issued on behalf of the Joint Conimittee of Russian Co-operative Organiza- tions in London, gives a full account of the way in which the Bolsheviks have treated the flourishing co-operative societies in Russia. A Bolshevik official is quoted as saying "with deep satisfaction that, as a result of the three years' struggle against the old co-operation, there is actually nothing left any more of the latter." The societies have in fact been taken over by the Bolshevik departments, and their former chiefs have lately been punished as "counter-revolutionaries." We have yet to see how the peasants, who profited greatly by co-operation, will reconcile themselves to the destruction of their societies.