Acknowledgments Introduction 1. First Steps: The Legalization of Entrepreneurship 2. The Evolution of the Cooperative Movement 3. The Economic Environment of Cooperatives 4. Official Responsed: Legal Restrictions, Bureaucratic Interference, Taxation 5. Crime and the Cooperative Movement 6. The Social and Ideological Environment of Cooperatives 7. The Politicization of Private Enterprise 8. Entrepreneurship and the Transition to a Market Economy Notes Index