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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 />

497<br />

showed 380,638 fac<strong>to</strong>ry workers in all trades except distilling,<br />

brewing, beet-sugar and <strong>to</strong>bacco.* To determine the number<br />

<strong>of</strong> workers in these trades, we have <strong>to</strong> take the only data<br />

available, those <strong>of</strong> the Military Statistical Abstract, which,<br />

as has been shown above, must be corrected. By adding the<br />

127,935 workers in the trades mentioned,** we get the<br />

<strong>to</strong>tal number <strong>of</strong> fac<strong>to</strong>ry workers in European Russia in<br />

1865 (in excise-paying and non-excise-paying trades) as<br />

508,573.*** For 1890 the corresponding figure will be<br />

839,730.**** The increase is 65%, much greater than the<br />

increase in population. It must, however, be borne in mind<br />

that actually the increase was undoubtedly bigger than<br />

these figures show: above it was demonstrated in detail<br />

that the fac<strong>to</strong>ry statistics for the 1860s are exaggerated<br />

due <strong>to</strong> their inclusion <strong>of</strong> small handicraft, artisan and<br />

agricultural establishments, as well as home workers.<br />

Unfortunately, we are unable, for lack <strong>of</strong> material, <strong>to</strong> correct<br />

all these exaggerations in full, and prefer not <strong>to</strong> correct<br />

them in part, especially as more exact data will be given<br />

below regarding the number <strong>of</strong> workers in large fac<strong>to</strong>ries.<br />

Let us pass <strong>to</strong> the mining and metallurgical statistics.<br />

For 1865 the number <strong>of</strong> mine workers was given only for the<br />

copper and iron trades, as well as the gold and platinum<br />

fields; for European Russia it was 133,176.(*) In 1890,<br />

* Returns and Material <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong> Finance, 1867,<br />

No. 6. It has been shown above that for comparison with contemporary<br />

data one can only take data from the same source, i.e., those <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Ministry <strong>of</strong> Finance.<br />

** The number <strong>of</strong> workers in brewing is 6,825, this figure is<br />

also exaggerated, but it cannot be corrected for lack <strong>of</strong> data; in beetsugar<br />

making—68,334 (according <strong>to</strong> The Ministry <strong>of</strong> Finance Yearbook);<br />

<strong>to</strong>bacco-making—6,116 (corrected) and distilling—46,660 (corrected).<br />

*** Mr. Tugan-Baranovsky quotes for 1866 the figure given<br />

by Mr. Veshnyakov—493,371 (The Fac<strong>to</strong>ry, p. 339). We do not know<br />

how this figure was arrived at; it differs very slightly from the one we<br />

give.<br />

**** According <strong>to</strong> the Direc<strong>to</strong>ry for 1890. <strong>From</strong> the <strong>to</strong>tal <strong>of</strong><br />

875,764 we have <strong>to</strong> subtract the number <strong>of</strong> workers duplicated in<br />

mining statistics, viz., 291 in asphalt, 3,468 in salt, and 32,275 in<br />

rails production.<br />

(*<br />

) For the number <strong>of</strong> mine workers in the 60s, see Statistical<br />

Chronicle, I, 1866; The Ministry <strong>of</strong> Finance Yearbook, I; Statistical<br />

Returns for Mining, for 1864-1867, St. Petersburg, 1864-1867, published<br />

by the Mining Scientific Committee.

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