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

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM IN RUSSIA<br />

Land<br />

Novouzensk Land<br />

Uyezd,<br />

Samara<br />

Gubernia<br />

Households<br />

purchased<br />

rented<br />

Area cultivated<br />

Animals (<strong>to</strong>tal, in<br />

terms <strong>of</strong> cattle)<br />

Improved agricultural<br />

implements<br />

Average per<br />

household<br />

Dessiatines Dessiatines<br />

Total for<br />

uyezd<br />

Farms with<br />

10 and more<br />

51,348 130,422 751,873 816,133 343,260 13,778 8,278 2.5 14.6 15.9 6.7<br />

draught<br />

animals3,958 117,621 580,158 327,527 151,744 10,598 6,055 29<br />

Of which—<br />

Russian<br />

farmstead<br />

peasants<br />

with 20 and<br />

more draught<br />

146 82 38<br />

animals218 57,083 253,669 59.137 39,520 1,013 1,379 261 1,163 271 181<br />

261<br />

There is no need, apparently, <strong>to</strong> comment on these data.<br />

We have had occasion <strong>to</strong> observe that the area described<br />

is the most typical <strong>of</strong> agricultural capitalism in Russia—typical<br />

not in the agricultural sense, <strong>of</strong> course, but in<br />

the social-economic sense. These colonies, having developed<br />

with the greatest freedom, show us what relations could and<br />

should have developed in the rest <strong>of</strong> Russia, had not the<br />

numerous survivals <strong>of</strong> pre-Reform life retarded the development<br />

<strong>of</strong> capitalism. The forms, however, <strong>of</strong> agricultural capitalism,<br />

as will be seen from what follows, are extremely varied.<br />

III. THE COMMERCIAL STOCK-FARMING AREA.<br />

GENERAL DATA ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DAIRY FARMING<br />

We now pass <strong>to</strong> another very important area <strong>of</strong> agricultural<br />

capitalism in Russia, namely, the region in which not<br />

cereal, but lives<strong>to</strong>ck produce is <strong>of</strong> predominant significance.<br />

This region embraces, apart from the Baltic and the western<br />

gubernias, the northern, the industrial and parts <strong>of</strong> some<br />

<strong>of</strong> the central gubernias (Ryazan, Orel, Tula, and Nizhni-<br />

Novgorod). Here animals are kept for dairy produce, and<br />

the whole character <strong>of</strong> agriculture is adapted <strong>to</strong> obtaining<br />

as large a quantity as possible <strong>of</strong> the more valuable market<br />

Employed workers<br />

purchased<br />

rented<br />

Area cultivated<br />

Animals (<strong>to</strong>tal, in<br />

terms <strong>of</strong> cattle)

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