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

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228<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

According <strong>to</strong> the report <strong>of</strong> the Ekaterinoslav Gubernia<br />

Zemstvo Board for 1895, “the use <strong>of</strong> improved agricultural<br />

implements in the gubernia is spreading very rapidly.”<br />

For<br />

were:<br />

example, in the Verkhne-Dnieper Uyezd there<br />

1894 1895<br />

Ploughs, scarifiers and cultiva<strong>to</strong>rs:<br />

”<br />

”<br />

”<br />

”<br />

”<br />

”<br />

”<br />

”<br />

private landowners’<br />

peasants’<br />

5,220<br />

27,271<br />

6,752<br />

30,112<br />

Horse-threshers:<br />

”<br />

”<br />

”<br />

”<br />

private landowners’<br />

peasants’<br />

(Vestnik Finansov, 1897, No. 6)<br />

131<br />

671<br />

290<br />

838<br />

According <strong>to</strong> the data <strong>of</strong> the Moscow Gubernia Zemstvo<br />

Board, peasants in Moscow Gubernia in 1895 owned 41,210<br />

iron ploughs; 20.2% <strong>of</strong> all householders owned such ploughs<br />

(Vestnik Finansov, 1896, No. 31). In Tver Gubernia, according<br />

<strong>to</strong> a special record made in 1896, there were 51,266 iron<br />

ploughs, owned by 16.5% <strong>of</strong> the <strong>to</strong>tal number <strong>of</strong> householders.<br />

In Tver Uyezd there were only 290 iron ploughs in 1890,<br />

and 5,581 in 1896 (Statistical Returns for Tver Gubernia,<br />

<strong>Vol</strong>. XIII, Pt. 2, pp. 91, 94). One can judge, therefore, how<br />

rapid is the consolidation and improvement <strong>of</strong> the farms<br />

<strong>of</strong> the peasant bourgeoisie.<br />

VIII. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MACHINERY IN AGRICULTURE<br />

Having established the fact <strong>of</strong> the extremely rapid development<br />

<strong>of</strong> the production <strong>of</strong> agricultural machinery and<br />

<strong>of</strong> the employment <strong>of</strong> machines in Russia’s post-Reform<br />

agriculture, we must now examine the social and economic<br />

significance <strong>of</strong> this phenomenon. <strong>From</strong> what has been<br />

said above regarding the economics <strong>of</strong> peasant and landlord<br />

farming, the following conclusions may be drawn:<br />

on the one hand, capitalism is the fac<strong>to</strong>r giving rise <strong>to</strong>,<br />

and extending the use <strong>of</strong>, machines in agriculture; on the<br />

other, the application <strong>of</strong> machinery <strong>to</strong> agriculture is <strong>of</strong> a<br />

capitalist character, i.e., it leads <strong>to</strong> the establishment <strong>of</strong><br />

capitalist relations and their further development.

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