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

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168<br />

Groups<br />

Rye flour (meras)<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

Per adult working person<br />

p r o d u c e c o n s u m e d expenditure in<br />

rubles<br />

Barley and<br />

millet flour<br />

(poods)<br />

Millet and<br />

buck-wheat<br />

flour (meras)<br />

Wheat and<br />

fine-wheat flour<br />

(poods)<br />

Pota<strong>to</strong>es (meras)<br />

Total agricultural<br />

produce in<br />

terms <strong>of</strong> rye<br />

a) 17.3 0.1 2.5 4.7 17.4 23.08 0.8 19.7 5.6 25.3<br />

b) 18.5 0.2 2.9 4.7 8.7 22.89 0.7 22.7 4.8 27.5<br />

c) 26.5 0.3 3.0 7.3 12.2 31.26 1.5 29.6 7.3 36.9<br />

d) 26.2 1.4 4.3 2.0 9.0 32.21 1.8 30.7 8.3 39.0<br />

e) 27.4 — 3.4 6.0 13.6 32.88 2.3 32.4 13.9 46.3<br />

f) 30.8 — 6.9 8.5 5.5 36.88 2.5 39.3 7.2 46.5<br />

24.9 9.5 3.7 5.5 10.4 33.78 1.4 29.1 7.8 36.9<br />

To compare the data on the standard <strong>of</strong> living <strong>of</strong> rural<br />

workers with this, we may take, firstly, average prices <strong>of</strong><br />

labour. For 10 years (1881-1891) the average pay <strong>of</strong> a farm<br />

labourer hired by the year in Voronezh Gubernia was 57<br />

rubles, and including keep, 99 rubles,* so that keep cost<br />

42 rubles. The amount <strong>of</strong> personal consumption by allotment-holding<br />

farm labourers and day labourers (horseless<br />

and one-horse peasants) is below this level. The <strong>to</strong>tal cost<br />

<strong>of</strong> a family’s keep amounts <strong>to</strong> only 78 rubles in the case<br />

<strong>of</strong> the horseless “peasant” (in a family <strong>of</strong> 4) and 98 rubles<br />

in the case <strong>of</strong> the one-horse “peasant” (in a family <strong>of</strong> 5),<br />

i.e., less than the cost <strong>of</strong> a farm labourer’s keep. (We have<br />

omitted from the budgets <strong>of</strong> the horseless and one-horse<br />

peasants farm expenditure and also taxes and duties, for<br />

in this locality the allotment is leased at not less than the<br />

amount <strong>of</strong> the taxes.) As was <strong>to</strong> be expected, the position<br />

<strong>of</strong> the labourer who is tied <strong>to</strong> his allotment is worse than<br />

that <strong>of</strong> the labourer who is free from such tie (we say nothing<br />

<strong>of</strong> the tremendous degree <strong>to</strong> which the tying <strong>of</strong> people<br />

down <strong>to</strong> allotments develops relations <strong>of</strong> bondage and<br />

personal dependence). The cash expenditure <strong>of</strong> the farm<br />

labourer is far higher than the cash expenditure on<br />

personal consumption <strong>of</strong> the one-horse and horseless peasant.<br />

* Agricultural and Statistical Information Obtained from Farmers.<br />

Published by the Department <strong>of</strong> Agriculture. <strong>Vol</strong>. V, St. Petersburg,<br />

1892, S. A. Korolenko, Hired Labour on Farms, etc.<br />

Meat (poods)<br />

On food<br />

On remaining<br />

personal<br />

consumption<br />

Total

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