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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 />

415<br />

(almost <strong>to</strong> a man) in clay digging; for heavy work not requiring<br />

special skill (grinding), workers from the Tula and<br />

Ryazan gubernias are employed almost exclusively,<br />

being superior in strength and vigour <strong>to</strong> the not very robust<br />

Gzhelians. Payment in goods is widely practised. Agriculture<br />

is in a bad way. “The Gzhelians are a degenerating<br />

race” (Isayev, 168)—weak-chested, narrow-shouldered,<br />

feeble; the decora<strong>to</strong>rs lose their sight at an early age,<br />

etc. Capitalist division <strong>of</strong> labour breaks up the worker<br />

and deforms him. The working day is from 12 <strong>to</strong> 13 hours.<br />

8) T h e M e t a l T r a d e s. T h e P a v l o v o I n d u s t r i e s<br />

The celebrated Pavlovo lock and cutlery industries<br />

cover the whole <strong>of</strong> Gorba<strong>to</strong>v Uyezd, Nizhni-Novgorod Gubernia,<br />

and Murom Uyezd, Vladimir Gubernia. These industries<br />

originated very long ago. Smirnov states that as far<br />

back as 1621 there were (according <strong>to</strong> the cadastres137 )<br />

11 smithies in Pavlovo. By the middle <strong>of</strong> the 19th century<br />

these industries constituted a far-flung network <strong>of</strong> fully<br />

developed capitalist relations. After the Reform, the industries<br />

in this district continued <strong>to</strong> develop and expand.<br />

According <strong>to</strong> the Zemstvo census <strong>of</strong> 1889, in Gorba<strong>to</strong>v Uyezd<br />

13 volosts and 119 villages were engaged in industry; a<br />

<strong>to</strong>tal <strong>of</strong> 5,953 households, 6,570 male workers (54% <strong>of</strong> the<br />

<strong>to</strong>tal number working in these villages) and 2,741 old men,<br />

juveniles and women, 9,311 persons in all. In the Murom<br />

Uyezd, Mr. Grigoryev in 1881 registered 6 industrial volosts,<br />

66 villages, 1,545 households and 2,205 male workers<br />

(39% <strong>of</strong> the <strong>to</strong>tal number working in these villages). Not<br />

only were large, non-agricultural industrial villages formed<br />

(Pavlovo, Vorsma), but even the surrounding peasants were<br />

diverted from agriculture: outside <strong>of</strong> Pavlovo and Vorsma,<br />

in Gorba<strong>to</strong>v Uyezd, 4,492 persons were engaged in industries,<br />

<strong>of</strong> whom 2,357, or more than half did not engage in<br />

agriculture. Life in centres like Pavlovo has become quite<br />

urban and has given rise <strong>to</strong> incomparably more developed<br />

requirements, more cultured environment, clothes, manner<br />

<strong>of</strong> life, etc., than among the surrounding “raw” peasants.*<br />

* See above regarding the greater literacy <strong>of</strong> the population <strong>of</strong><br />

Pavlovo and Vorsma and the migration <strong>of</strong> peasants from the villages<br />

<strong>to</strong> these centres.

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