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

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Years<br />

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM IN RUSSIA<br />

I. M. Terentyev’s fac<strong>to</strong>ry I. N. Garelin’s fac<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

in Shuya in Ivanovo-Voznesensk<br />

Number <strong>of</strong> power-looms<br />

473<br />

Number Number<br />

<strong>of</strong> workers<strong>of</strong> workers<br />

on premises<br />

outside<br />

<strong>to</strong>tal<br />

Total output<br />

(thousand rubles)<br />

Number <strong>of</strong> power-looms<br />

on premises<br />

1866 Hand — 205 670 875 130 Distributing — ? 1,917 1,917 158<br />

<strong>of</strong>fices<br />

1879 Steam 648 920 — 920 1,346 Steam 893 1,274 — 1,274 2,137<br />

1890 ” 1,502 1,043 — 1,043 1,244 ” 1,141 1,483 — 1,483 2,058<br />

1894-95 ” ? 1,160 — 1,160 1,878 ” ? 2,134 — 2,134 2,933<br />

Hence, <strong>to</strong> assess the development <strong>of</strong> large-scale machine<br />

production in this branch <strong>of</strong> industry it is best <strong>to</strong> take<br />

the data giving the number <strong>of</strong> power-looms. In the 1860s<br />

there were about 11,000,* and in 1890 about 87,000. Largescale<br />

machine industry was consequently developing at<br />

enormous speed. In cot<strong>to</strong>n spinning and weaving there<br />

was recorded in 1875-1878 a <strong>to</strong>tal <strong>of</strong> 148 mechanised establishments,<br />

having 481 steam-engines <strong>to</strong>talling 20,504 h.p.,<br />

and in 1890, 168 mechanised establishments, having 554<br />

steam-engines with a <strong>to</strong>tal <strong>of</strong> 38,750 h.p.<br />

Precisely the same mistake is made in Russian statistics<br />

in relation <strong>to</strong> linen production, wherein a decrease in the<br />

number <strong>of</strong> fac<strong>to</strong>ry workers is erroneously shown (1866—<br />

17,171; 1890—15,497). Actually, in 1866, <strong>of</strong> 16,900 looms<br />

belonging <strong>to</strong> linen-mill owners only 4,749 were kept in their<br />

establishments, the remaining 12,151 being held by workroom<br />

owners.** The number <strong>of</strong> fac<strong>to</strong>ry workers for 1866,<br />

therefore, included about 12,000 home workers, and for<br />

1890 only about 3,000 (computed from Direc<strong>to</strong>ry). The<br />

number <strong>of</strong> power-looms, however, grew from 2,263 in 1866<br />

(computed from Military Statistical Abstract) <strong>to</strong> 4,041 in<br />

* Military Statistical Abstract, 380.—Survey <strong>of</strong> Manufac<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

Industry, <strong>Vol</strong>, II, St. Petersburg, 1863, p. 451.—In 1898 the number<br />

<strong>of</strong> power-looms used in cot<strong>to</strong>n weaving (for the whole Empire, evidently)<br />

was reckoned at 100,630. Successes <strong>of</strong> Russian Industry, p. 33.<br />

** Military Statistical Abstract, pp. 367-368: Commissariat<br />

returns.<br />

outside<br />

<strong>to</strong>tal<br />

Total output<br />

(thousand rubles)

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