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

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196<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

tion not only <strong>of</strong> all estates, but <strong>of</strong> all economic operations<br />

performed on all the estates. Only approximate data<br />

are available, in the shape <strong>of</strong> general descriptions <strong>of</strong> individual<br />

localities as <strong>to</strong> the predominance <strong>of</strong> one or another<br />

system. Data <strong>of</strong> this kind are given in a summarised form<br />

for the whole <strong>of</strong> Russia in the above-mentioned publication<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Agriculture, Hired Labour, etc. On<br />

the basis <strong>of</strong> these data, Mr. Annensky has drawn up a very<br />

striking chart showing the incidence <strong>of</strong> these systems (The<br />

Influence <strong>of</strong> Harvests, etc., 84 I, 170). Let us summarise<br />

these data in a table, and supplement them with figures on<br />

the cultivated area on private owners’ lands in 1883-1887<br />

(according <strong>to</strong> Statistics <strong>of</strong> the Russian Empire, IV. The<br />

average harvest in European Russia in the five years 1883-<br />

1887. St. Petersburg, 1888).*<br />

N u m b e r<br />

o f g u b e r n i a s<br />

Gubernia groups according <strong>to</strong><br />

system <strong>of</strong> economy predominant<br />

on landowners’<br />

estates<br />

I. Gubernias where the<br />

in<br />

blackearth<br />

belt<br />

in nonblackearth<br />

belt<br />

Total<br />

Area under all cereals<br />

and pota<strong>to</strong>es on pri-<br />

vate owners’ estates<br />

(thous. dess.)<br />

capitalist system predominates<br />

...... 9 10 19 7,407<br />

II. Gubernias where a mixed<br />

system predominates<br />

III. Gubernias where the la-<br />

3 4 7 2,222<br />

bour-service system predominates<br />

...... 12 5 17 6,281<br />

Total .. 24 19 43 15,910<br />

* Of the 50 gubernias <strong>of</strong> European Russia the following are<br />

excluded: Archangel, <strong>Vol</strong>ogda, Olonets, Vyatka, Perm, Orenburg and<br />

Astrakhan. In these gubernias the area cultivated in 1883-1887<br />

amounted <strong>to</strong> 562,000 dess. on private owners’ estates out <strong>of</strong> a <strong>to</strong>tal <strong>of</strong><br />

16,472,000 dess. cultivated on such land in the whole <strong>of</strong> European<br />

Russia.—Group I includes the following: the 3 Baltic gubernias, the<br />

4 Western (Kovno, Vilna, Grodno and Minsk), the 3 South-Western<br />

(Kiev, <strong>Vol</strong>hynia, Podolsk), the 5 Southern (Kherson, Taurida, Bessarabia,<br />

Ekaterinoslav, Don), and 1 South-Eastern (Sara<strong>to</strong>v); then<br />

follow the St. Petersburg, Moscow and Yaroslavl gubernias. Group<br />

II includes: Vitebsk, Mogilev, Smolensk, Kaluga, Voronezh, Poltava<br />

and Kharkov. Group III includes the rest <strong>of</strong> the gubernias.—To be<br />

more exact one should deduct from the <strong>to</strong>tal area cultivated on<br />

private owners’ land the gown area belonging <strong>to</strong> tenants, but no such<br />

statistics are available. We would add that such a correction would

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