Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 3 - From Marx to Mao

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V. I. LENIN
We see also how profoundly the facts are distorted when
the most varied types of occupations are lumped together
under the heading of “industries” or “employments,” when the
“combination of agriculture with industries” is depicted (as,
for example, by Messrs. V. V. and N. —on) as something
uniform, identical in nature and precluding capitalism.
Let us point in conclusion to the similarity of the data
for Ekaterinburg Uyezd. If from the 59,709 households in the
uyezd we subtract the landless (14,601 households), those having
only meadow land (15,679 households), and those neglecting
their allotments entirely (1,612 households), we get
for the remaining 27,817 households the following data:
the 20,000 households that cultivate no land or cultivate
little (up to 5 dess.) have an aggregate area under crops of
41,000 dess. out of 124,000 dess., i.e., less than 3. On the
other hand, 2,859 well-to-do households (with over 10
dess. under crops) have 49,751 dess. under crops, and 53,000
dess. of rented land out of a total of 67,000 dess. (including
47,000 dess. out of 55,000 dess. of rented peasant land). The
distribution of the two opposite types of “industries” and also
of the households employing farm labourers in Ekaterinburg
Uyezd is shown to be quite similar to the distribution of
these indices of differentiation for Krasnoufimsk Uyezd.
V. ZEMSTVO STATISTICS FOR OREL GUBERNIA
We have at our disposal two volumes of statistics, for the
Yelets and Trubchevsk uyezds of this gubernia, which classify
the peasant households according to the number of
draught horses owned.*
Combining the two uyezds, we give the following joint
data by groups.
* Statistical Returns for Orel Gubernia, Vol. II, Moscow, 1887.
Yelets Uyezd, and Vol. III, Orel, 1887. Trubchevsk Uyezd. For
the latter uyezd the data do not include those for the suburban village
communities. We take joint data for the renting of land, combining
the allotment and non-allotment rented land. We have determined
the amount of leased land approximately, from the number of households
leasing out the whole of their allotments. The figures obtained
constitute the basis for determining the amount of land in use by each
group (allotment#purchased land#rented land—land leased out).