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

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM IN RUSSIA<br />

125<br />

For three uyezds <strong>of</strong> Poltava Gubernia we can determine<br />

approximately the way the area under crops is distributed<br />

(knowing the number <strong>of</strong> farms with different areas under crops<br />

—indicated in the statistical reports as “from—<strong>to</strong>” so many<br />

dessiatines—and multiplying the number <strong>of</strong> households<br />

in each division by the average area under crops within<br />

the limits indicated). We get the following data for<br />

76,032 households (villagers, excluding non-peasants) with<br />

362,298 dess. under crops: 31,001 households (40.8%)<br />

cultivate no land or only up <strong>to</strong> 3 dess. per household, <strong>to</strong> a<br />

<strong>to</strong>tal <strong>of</strong> 36,040 dess. under crops (9.9%); 19,017 households<br />

(25%) cultivate over 6 dess. per household and have 209,195<br />

dess. under crops (57.8%). (See Economic Statistical Returns<br />

for Poltava Gubernia, Konstantinograd, Khorol and Piryatin<br />

uyezds.) 50 The distribution <strong>of</strong> area under crops is very<br />

much the same as what we have seen in the case <strong>of</strong> Taurida<br />

Gubernia, despite the basically smaller areas under crops.<br />

Naturally, such an uneven distribution is possible only where<br />

the purchased and rented land is concentrated in the hands<br />

<strong>of</strong> a minority. We have no complete data on this, since the<br />

statistics do not classify households according <strong>to</strong> economic<br />

strength and must therefore confine ourselves <strong>to</strong> the following<br />

data on Konstantinograd Uyezd. In the chapter <strong>of</strong> farming<br />

by the rural social-estates (Chapter II, §5, “Agriculture”) the<br />

compiler <strong>of</strong> the abstract states: “In general, if rented plots are<br />

divided in<strong>to</strong> three categories: area per lessee <strong>of</strong> 1) up <strong>to</strong> 10<br />

dess., 2) from 10 <strong>to</strong> 30 dess. and 3) over 30 dess., the data<br />

for each will be as follows*:<br />

Ratio <strong>of</strong> Rented land<br />

leasees rented land per leasee sub-leased<br />

% % (dess.) in %<br />

Small rented plots (up <strong>to</strong><br />

10 dess.) 86.0 35.5 3.7 6.6<br />

Medium rented plots(10 <strong>to</strong><br />

30 dess.) 8.3 16.6 17.5 3.9<br />

Big rented plots (over<br />

30 dess.) 5.7 47.9 74.8 12.9<br />

Total 100 100 8.6 9.3<br />

Introduction). Of 424,624 dess. <strong>of</strong> s<strong>of</strong>t arable land belonging <strong>to</strong> the<br />

peasant old-timers <strong>of</strong> Yenisei Gubernia, 417,086 dess. are “appropriated<br />

family” land. 49 Renting (2,686 dess.) nearly equals leasing 2,639<br />

dess.) and represents not even one per cent <strong>of</strong> the <strong>to</strong>tal land appropriated.<br />

* Abstract, p. 142.

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