Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

222V. I. LENINsocieties and associations, which means that on the wholethey are small holdings, unfortunately not classified accordingto size. Further, 3,700,000 dessiatins belong to “industrialand commercial, manufacturing and other” associations,of which there are 1,042. Of these, 272 own morethan 1,000 dessiatins each, the total for the 272 being3,600,000 dessiatins. These are, evidently, landlord latifundia.The bulk of this land is concentrated in Perm Gubernia,where nine such associations own 1,448,902 dessiatins!It is known that the Urals factories own many thousanddessiatins of land—a direct survival in bourgeoisRussia of the feudal, seigniorial latifundia.We therefore single out 3,600,000 dessiatins from theland owned by societies and associations as the biggestlanded estates. The remainder has not been classified, butgenerally it consists of small holdings.Out of the 39,500,000 dessiatins of state and other lands,only the crown lands 98 (5,100,000 dessiatins) lend themselvesto classification according to size. These, too, are verylarge semi-medieval landed estates. We thus get a totalarea of land, both classified and not classified accordingto size of holdings, as follows:LandLandclassified not classifiedaccording to size of holdings(millions dessiatins)A. Privately owned land 89.5* 12.2B. Allotment land 136.9 1.9C. State land and land ownedby various institutions 5.1 34.4Total 231.5 48.5Grand total 280.0Let us now classify the allotment land according to sizeof holdings. By rearranging the data obtained from oursource of information into somewhat larger groups, we get:⎟⎟⎠⎟©⎟⎞⎟⎟* 85,900,000 dessiatins of privately owned land plus 3,600,000dessiatins of latifundia owned by industrial and commercial associationsand societies.