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

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462<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

establishments with the large ones; for different trades<br />

and different gubernias unequal numbers <strong>of</strong> small establishments<br />

are included (quite fortui<strong>to</strong>usly, <strong>of</strong> course) in the<br />

statistics.* Regarding trades connected with agriculture,<br />

the Direc<strong>to</strong>ry repeats (p. 396) the Yearbook’s reservation<br />

and refuses <strong>to</strong> give “even approximate <strong>to</strong>tals” (author’s<br />

italics) owing <strong>to</strong> the inaccuracy and incompleteness <strong>of</strong><br />

the data.** This view (quite a legitimate one, as we shall<br />

see below) did not, however, prevent the inclusion in the<br />

Direc<strong>to</strong>ry’s general <strong>to</strong>tals <strong>of</strong> all these particularly<br />

unreliable figures, which are thus lumped <strong>to</strong>gether with<br />

relatively reliable ones. Let us give the Direc<strong>to</strong>ry’s <strong>to</strong>tal<br />

figures for European Russia, with the observation that,<br />

unlike previous figures, they also embrace excisepaying<br />

trades (the second edition <strong>of</strong> the Direc<strong>to</strong>ry, 1887,<br />

gives the returns for 1884; the third, 1894, those for 1890):<br />

Y e a r s<br />

No. <strong>of</strong> Total<br />

fac<strong>to</strong>riesoutput<br />

and (thousand<br />

No. <strong>of</strong><br />

workers<br />

worksrubles)<br />

1879*** 27,986 1,148,134 763,152<br />

1884 27,235 1,329,602 826,794<br />

1890 21,124 1,500,871 875,764<br />

We shall show further that the drop in the number <strong>of</strong><br />

fac<strong>to</strong>ries indicated by these data was actually fictitious; the<br />

whole point is that at different times different numbers<br />

<strong>of</strong> small establishments were classed as fac<strong>to</strong>ries. Thus,<br />

the number <strong>of</strong> establishments with an output exceeding<br />

1,000 rubles was estimated in 1884 at 19,277, and in 1890,<br />

at 21,124; with an output <strong>of</strong> 2,000 rubles and over: in 1884<br />

at 11,509, and in 1890 at 17,642.****<br />

* Examples will be given in the next section. Here let us refer<br />

<strong>to</strong> p. 679 and foll. <strong>of</strong> the Direc<strong>to</strong>ry; a glance at these pages will readily<br />

convince anyone <strong>of</strong> the justice <strong>of</strong> what has been said in the text.<br />

** In the third edition <strong>of</strong> the Direc<strong>to</strong>ry (St. Petersburg, 1894),<br />

this reservation is not repeated, regrettably so, for the data are as<br />

unsatisfac<strong>to</strong>ry as ever.<br />

*** Certain missing data have been added approximately; see<br />

Direc<strong>to</strong>ry, p. 695.<br />

**** See classification <strong>of</strong> fac<strong>to</strong>ries according <strong>to</strong> <strong>to</strong>tal output in<br />

the second and third editions <strong>of</strong> the Direc<strong>to</strong>ry.

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