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

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Groups<br />

buildings<br />

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM IN RUSSIA<br />

Per farm value (rubles) <strong>of</strong> In rubles<br />

implements<br />

animals and poultry<br />

utensils<br />

clothes<br />

<strong>to</strong>tal<br />

per head, both sexes<br />

implements and<br />

lives<strong>to</strong>ck<br />

dit<strong>to</strong> per dess.<br />

under crops<br />

No. <strong>of</strong> buildings per farm<br />

Total animals in terms<br />

<strong>of</strong> cattle per farm<br />

Value <strong>of</strong> one draught horse<br />

No. <strong>of</strong> peasants without<br />

implements<br />

No. <strong>of</strong> peasants with improved<br />

implements<br />

a) 67.25 9.73 16.87 14.61 39.73 148.19 36.29 26.60 18.04 3.8 0.8 — 8 — —<br />

b) 133.28 29.03 62.04 19.57 61.78 305.70 61.83 91.07 26.56 5.9 2.6 27 — — —<br />

c) 235.76 76.35 145.89 51.95 195.43 705.38 85.65 222.24 32.04 7.6 4.9 37 — — —<br />

d) 512.33 85.10 368.94 54.71 288.73 1,309.81 100.75 454.04 39.86 10.2 9.1 61 — 1 50<br />

e) 495.80 174.16 442.06 81.71 445.66 1,639.39 115.45 616.22 34.04 11.4 12.8 52 — 1 50<br />

f) 656.20 273.99 934.06 82.04 489.38 2,435.67 152.23 1,208.05 57.30 13.0 19.3 69 — 3 170.3<br />

To- 266.44<br />

tal<br />

74.90 212.13 41.42 184.62 779.33 94.20 287.03 38.20 7.5 5.8 52 8 5 270.3<br />

159<br />

This table graphically illustrates the difference in the extent<br />

<strong>to</strong> which the various groups are provided with implements<br />

and lives<strong>to</strong>ck, a point we mentioned above on the<br />

basis <strong>of</strong> the mass data. We see here the completely different<br />

degree <strong>to</strong> which the various groups hold property, this<br />

difference being such that even the horses <strong>of</strong> the poor peasant<br />

are very different from those <strong>of</strong> the affluent peasant.*<br />

The horse <strong>of</strong> the one-horse peasant is a veritable “living<br />

fraction”—not a “quarter <strong>of</strong> a horse,” <strong>to</strong> be sure, but fully<br />

“twenty-seven fifty-seconds” <strong>of</strong> a horse!** 61<br />

* German agricultural literature includes several monographs<br />

by Drechsler containing data on the weight <strong>of</strong> the cattle owned by<br />

farmers <strong>of</strong> various groups, classified according <strong>to</strong> amount <strong>of</strong> land<br />

held. 60 These data show even more strikingly than the figures we<br />

have cited from Russian Zemstvo statistics the immeasurably inferior<br />

quality <strong>of</strong> the cattle owned by the small peasants as compared with<br />

those owned by the big peasants, particularly by the landlords. I hope<br />

<strong>to</strong> analyse these data for the press in the near future. (Note <strong>to</strong> 2nd<br />

edition.)<br />

** If these budget standards <strong>of</strong> the value <strong>of</strong> buildings, implements<br />

and animals <strong>to</strong> be found in the various groups <strong>of</strong> peasants were<br />

applied <strong>to</strong> the summary data for 49 gubernias <strong>of</strong> European Russia<br />

that were cited above, it would be seen that one-fifth <strong>of</strong> the peasant<br />

households owns a considerably larger quantity <strong>of</strong> means <strong>of</strong> production<br />

than all the rest <strong>of</strong> the peasantry.<br />

Value <strong>of</strong> implements

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