"The first edition of this book appeared in German under the title of 'Die genossenschafts-bewegung in Finland' and was published in two volumes ... The first volume appeared in 1909 and was afterwards republished in Swedish, Russian and French. The second volume, published in 1912, is only available in German. The present book combines a large amount of the information contained in each of the two volumes mentioned ... It was originally published in the Finnish language ... A swedish edition has also been prepared, and the present volume is substantially a translation of the Swedish version ... The English version which we now publish was translated in Finland."--Editor's note.