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

AGRARIAN PROGRAMME OF SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY235are the big feudal estates. We have taken a very high normof expropriation—500 dessiatins. But it can easily be seenthat our conclusions hold good however much this norm isreduced, let us say to 100 or to 50 dessiatins. Let us dividegroup (c)—20-500 dessiatins, into three subgroups: (aa)20-50 dessiatins, (bb) 50-100, and (cc) 100-500, and see whatthe size of the peasant allotments and private holdings iswithin these subdivisions:A l l o t m e n t L a n dSubdivisions Number of Total area of Average perholdings land holding(dessiatins)20-50 dess. 1,062,504 30,898,147 29.150-100 ” 191,898 12,259,171 63.9100-500 ” 40,658 5,762,276 141.7P r i v a t e L a n dT o t a l i n E u r o p e a n R u s s i aNumber Total area Average Number Total area Averageof holdings of land per holding of holdings of land per holding(dessiatins)(dessiatins)103,237 3,301,004 32.0 1,165,741 34,199,151 29.344,877 3,229,858 71.9 236,775 15,489,029 65.461,188 14,096,637 230.4 101,846 19,858,913 194.9Hence it follows, first, that the confiscation of estatesof over 100 dessiatins will increase the distributable land,as already stated above, by nine to ten million dessiatins,whereas the confiscation of estates of over 50 dessiatins, asassumed by Chizhevsky, a member of the First Duma,will increase this land by eighteen and a half million dessiatins.Consequently, in this case also, the feudal latifundiawill form the basis of the distributable land area.That is the crux of the present-day agrarian problem. Moreover,the connection that exists between these big estatesand the higher bureaucracy is also quite well known: G. A.Alexinsky in the Second Duma quoted Mr. Rubakin’s dataon the size of the estates owned by higher officials in Russia.Secondly, it is seen from these data that even afterdeducting the peasant allotments and the estates of over100 dessiatins, the size of the bigger allotments (and thesmall estates) still varies considerably. The revolutionalready finds the peasants differentiated in regard to size