Abstract:

The end of the Second World War was followed by a series of changes that marked the evolution of Romania at political, territorial, economic and social level. The partnership forms developed in Romania, after the end of the war, until the end of the nine decade of the last century, manifested itself within the cooperation relations, achieved both internally and externally. Internally, these relationships were in the guise of the cooperativization process, met in fields such as agriculture, industry or commerce and they expressed associations aimed to achieve a relative economic independence from the state.

Both before the First World War and in the interwar period, the Romanian state supported the co-operative movement, through legislative regulations and the institutional environment created for the development of the sector.The study follows the evolution of this form of co-operation, after the Second World War and the transformations suffered by the co-operation, as a result of the penetration of the Soviet model in Eastern European countries; at the same time, the actions of the state in order to support the process of co-operativization, both in legislative and institutional terms, through the creation of bodies and institutions based on the principle of the central initiative, are emphasized,.