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

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as this material is, one can nevertheless draw from it conclusions
(certainly very general, approximate, aggregate)
that are not without interest, particularly since the ratio of
peasants with many horses to those with few has already
been analysed and found to be remarkably similar in the
most varied localities.
According to the data in Mr. Blagoveshchensky’s Combined
Zemstvo House-to-House Census Economic Returns (Vol. I,
Peasant Farming, Moscow, 1893), 53 the Zemstvo censuses
covered 123 uyezds in 22 gubernias, having 2,983,733 peasant
households and a population of 17,996,317 persons of
both sexes. But the data on the distribution of households
according to draught animals are not everywhere of the same
kind. Thus, in three gubernias we have to omit 11 uyezds*
where the households are classified not in four, but in only
three groups. For the remaining 112 uyezds in 21 gubernias
we get the following combined figures covering nearly 22
million households with a population of 15 million:
Groups of farms
Households
With no draught animals 613,238 24.7
— — —
53.3
” 1 ” animal 712,256 28.6 712,256 18.6 1
” 2 ” animals645,900 26.0 1,291,800 33.7 2
” 3 and more ” 515,521 20.7 1,824,969 47.7 3.5
Total 2,486,915 100 3,829,025 100 1.5
These data cover slightly less than one-fourth of the
total peasant households in European Russia (the Combined
Statistical Material on the Economic Position of the Rural
Population in European Russia, published by the Chan-
* 5 uyezds in Saratov Gubernia, 5 in Samara Gubernia, and
1 in Bessarabia Gubernia.
** To horses are added oxen, calculated at a pair for one horse.
% of households
{
Draught animals.
No. possessed**
Draught animals,
% of total
Draught animals
per household