Trudosoiuz

Trudosoiuz [Трудосоюз; full name: Всеукраїнський союз виробничих кооператив; Vseukrainskyi soiuz vyrobnychykh kooperatyv, or All-Ukrainian Union of Manufacturing Co-operatives]. The central organization for manufacturing co-operatives in Ukraine, established in Odesa in 1919 by Serhii Borodaievsky. Its goal was to organize manufacturing co-operatives throughout Ukraine. The union was dissolved following the Bolshevik seizure of power in Ukraine in 1919.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]