SAMARA MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATION IN THE YEARSOF THE NEW ECONOMICAL POLICY

Abstract

The study of economical activities of different social groups in the years of the new economical policy (the NEP) is of great scientific importance because of the necessity to reconsider the results of the economic reforms in modern Russia. That’s why it’s urgent to study locally particular parts of the social group of entrepreneurs (i.e. members of local mutual loan associations) in the years of the NEP. The aim of the article is to analyze Samara local mutual loan association in the years of the NEP. The subject of the study is the processes of the social structure, as well as the changes which were taking place under the state policy influence. The object of the study is the activity of Samara local mutual loan association, as an organization meeting the entrepreneurs’ needs in loans. Among our aims ther is also studying of the reasons of the local mutual loan association creation (as they were understood by the government and the entrepreneurs). State policy which influenced the association’s clientele is also among the aims of the research. Besides, dynamics of changes in the number of the association members according to their social groups is studied.