Foreword to the Second World Series by Teodor Shanin vii Introduction by Viktor Danilov xi Author's Comment xxxvii 1 The Processes and the Concept of Vertical Concentration in the Rural Economy: Peasant Co-operation as an Alternative 1 2 The Theory of Differential Optima and Co-operatives in the Peasant Economy 24 3 Credit in the Peasant Economy 53 4 Co-operative Credit Societies 72 5 The Peasant Family's Money Economy and its Organization on Co-operative Principles 91 6 The Basic Principles of the Co-operative Organization of Commodity Circulation 115 7 The Organization of Co-operative Marketing and Reprocessing Enterprises 131 8 Machinery Users' Associations 147 9 Dairy Farming Reprocessing and Cattle-rearing Co-operatives 162 10 Peasant Co-operation for the Purpose of Cattle-rearing 183 vi Contents 11 Co-operative Insurance 187 12 Associations Concerned with Land 196 13 Collective Farms or 'Total Agricultural Co-operation' 207 14 The Basic Principles of Organization of Agricultural Co-operatives 224