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

224V. I. LENINly classified according to scale of farming and not accordingto area of allotments, are those about the number ofhorses owned. According to the last army horse censusesof 1888-91, the peasant households in 48 gubernias of EuropeanRussia are classified as follows:HouseholdsPoor Without horses 2,765,970{Owning 1 horse 2,885,192Middle ” 2 horses 2,240,574{” 3 ” 1,070,250Well-to-do ” 4 ” or more 1,154,674Total 10,116,660Broadly speaking, this means that over one-half are poor(5,600,000 out of 10,100,000), about one-third are middlehouseholds (3,300,000 with 2 or 3 horses), and slightly overone-tenth are well-to-do (1,100,000 out of 10,100,000).Let us now examine the distribution of individual privatelanded property. The statistics do not give a clear enoughidea of the smallest holdings, but they give extremely detaileddata on the biggest latifundia.{Individual Private Landed Propertyin European RussiaGroups of holdings Number of Total area of Average dess.holdings land (dess.) per holding10 dess. and less 409,864 1,625,226 3.910-50 dess incl. 209,119 4,891,031 23.450-500 ” ” 106,065 17,326,495 163.3500-2,000 ” ” 21,748 20,590,708 9472,000-10,000 ” ” 5,386 20,602,109 3,825Over 10,000 ” ” 699 20,798,504 29,754Total over 500 dess. 27,833 61,991,321 2,227Grand total for 752,881 85,834,073 114European RussiaWe see here, first, the enormous preponderance of largelandownership: 619,000 small holders (up to 50 dessiatins)own only 6,500,000 dessiatins. Secondly, we see vast latifundia:699 owners have almost 30,000 dessiatins each!{ {{