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

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252<br />

C H A P T E R IV<br />

THE GROWTH OF COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE<br />

Having examined the internal economic structure <strong>of</strong><br />

peasant and landlord economy, we must now take up the<br />

question <strong>of</strong> the changes in agricultural production and ask:<br />

do these changes express a growth <strong>of</strong> capitalism and <strong>of</strong> the<br />

home market?<br />

I. GENERAL DATA ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION<br />

IN POST-REFORM RUSSIA AND ON THE TYPES<br />

OF COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE<br />

Let us glance first <strong>of</strong> all at the general statistics on grain<br />

production in European Russia. The considerable harvest<br />

fluctuations render the data for individual periods or for<br />

individual years quite useless.* It is necessary <strong>to</strong> take different<br />

periods and the data for a whole number <strong>of</strong> years. We<br />

have at our disposal the following data: for the period <strong>of</strong><br />

the 60s, the data for 1864-1866 (Military Statistical<br />

Abstract, IV, St. Petersburg, 1871, data <strong>of</strong> guberna<strong>to</strong>rial<br />

reports). For the 70s, the returns <strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Agriculture<br />

for the entire decade (His<strong>to</strong>rico-Statistical Survey<br />

<strong>of</strong> Russian Industry, <strong>Vol</strong>. I, St. Petersburg, 1883). And lastly,<br />

for the 1880s, we have data for the five years <strong>of</strong> 1883-<br />

1887 (Statistics <strong>of</strong> the Russian Empire, IV); this five-year<br />

period can represent the whole <strong>of</strong> the eighties, since the average<br />

harvest for the ten years, 1880-1889, is even somewhat<br />

higher than for the five years 1883-1887 (see Agricul-<br />

* If only for this reason, Mr. N. —on is absolutely wrong in drawing<br />

the boldest conclusions from the returns for 8 years <strong>of</strong> one decade<br />

(1871-1878)!

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