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

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556<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

The latest statistics show an even greater development<br />

<strong>of</strong> the savings banks. In 1904, over the whole <strong>of</strong> Russia<br />

there were 6,557 savings banks with 5.1 million deposi<strong>to</strong>rs<br />

and <strong>to</strong>tal deposits <strong>of</strong> 1,105.5 million rubles. Incidentally,<br />

in this country both the old Narodniks and the new opportunists<br />

in the socialist movement have frequently been very<br />

naïve (<strong>to</strong> put it mildly) in talking about the increase in the<br />

number <strong>of</strong> savings banks constituting a sign <strong>of</strong> the “people’s”<br />

well-being. It will perhaps not be out <strong>of</strong> place, therefore,<br />

<strong>to</strong> compare the distribution <strong>of</strong> savings-bank deposits in<br />

Russia (1904) with that <strong>of</strong> France (1900. Information from<br />

Bulletin de l’Office du travail, 1901, No. 10).<br />

In Russia:<br />

Size <strong>of</strong> deposits<br />

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

deposi<strong>to</strong>rs %<br />

Total deposits<br />

(million %<br />

(thousands) rubles)<br />

Under 25 rubles1,870.4 38.7 11.2 1.2<br />

25 <strong>to</strong> 100 ” 967.7 20.0 52.8 5.4<br />

100 <strong>to</strong> 500 ” 1,380.7 28.6 308.0 31.5<br />

Over 500 ” 615.5 12.7 605.4 61.9<br />

Total 4,834.3 100 977.4 100<br />

In France:<br />

Size <strong>of</strong> deposits<br />

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

deposi<strong>to</strong>rs %<br />

Total deposits<br />

(million %<br />

(thousands) francs)<br />

Under 100 fr. 5,273.5 50.1 143.6 3.3<br />

100 <strong>to</strong> 500 ” 2,197.4 20.8 493.8 11.4<br />

500 <strong>to</strong> 1,000 ” 1,113.8 10.6 720.4 16.6<br />

Over 1,000 ” 1,948.3 18.5 2,979.3 68.7<br />

Total 10,533.0 100 4,337.1 100<br />

What a wealth <strong>of</strong> material there is here for Narodnik-<br />

Revisionist-Cadet apologists! It is interesting, in passing, <strong>to</strong><br />

note that in Russia deposits are also divided in<strong>to</strong> 12 groups<br />

according <strong>to</strong> the occupations and pr<strong>of</strong>essions <strong>of</strong> deposi<strong>to</strong>rs.<br />

It appears that the largest sum <strong>of</strong> deposits—228.5 million<br />

rubles—is that <strong>of</strong> persons engaged in agriculture and rural<br />

industries, and these deposits are growing with particular<br />

rapidity. The village is becoming civilised, and <strong>to</strong> make the

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