For the limited purposes I am discussing, yes it is.
At which point I no longer understand what do you mean by "cooperation".
just look at how, whenever food production was particularly problematic, the USSR would briefly swap over to a semi-capitalist system for a few years
Huh? That, um, never happened except for once in the 1920s. I have no idea what are you talking about.
The farmers routinely defected under the soviet economic system, hiding whatever they could to sell on the black market
I don't think that was as routine as you seem to think. If your farmers collective grows wheat, who do you sell it to? It's not like there were any millers to whom one could come with a sack of grain...
At which point I no longer understand what do you mean by "cooperation".
"Not defecting." I imagine defection is a clearer distinction in your mind?
Huh? That, um, never happened except for once in the 1920s. I have no idea what are you talking about.
It happened multiple times. The 1920 were the initial collectivization period, which led to a famine. The mid 1930's had the first semi-capitalistic change, allowing privately-held sections of farmland. The Soviet government largely ignored the fact that most effort was concentrate...
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