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

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in the Zemstvo returns and reviews, while the essential
differences between, and features of, various peasant groups
that took shape as capitalism developed were lost in the columns
of average figures.
Lenin made a comprehensive analysis of Zemstvo statistical
data, and carefully studied and processed them. He made calculations
of his own, drew up tables and statistical summaries,
gave a Marxist analysis of the peasant-farm data secured, and
grouped them scientifically. Lenin used the wealth of Zemstvo
statistical material to expose the artificiality of Narodnik schemes
and to draw a true picture of Russia’s economic development.
He made extensive use of Zemstvo statistical material in his
writings and especially in The Development of Capitalism in
Russia. p. 70
Novorossia—the name given to the Southern steppe area of
European Russia. p. 70
V. Y. Postnikov’s Peasant Farming in South Russia is examined
in detail by Lenin in one of his first works, New Economic Trends
in Peasant Life. (See present edition, Vol. 1.) p. 70
Allotment land—land left for the use of the peasants after
the abolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861. Held by the peasant
community, it was periodically redistributed among the
peasants. p. 73
The full title of this source is Statistical Returns for Taurida
Gubernia. Statistical Tables Concerning Economic Conditions
in the Villages of Melitopol Uyezd. Appendix to Vol. I, Simferopol,
1885. p. 74
Yoking (supryaga)—cultivation of the land with draught
animals belonging to different peasants yoked together in a team.
p. 79
Volost—the lowest administrative territorial unit of the uyezd
in pre-revolutionary Russia. p. 81
Sarpinka—a thin striped or check cotton cloth; originally
made in Sarepta. p. 95
The registered males were those members of the male population
of feudal Russia subject to the poll-tax (the peasantry and urban
middle class were chiefly affected) and to this end were recorded
in special censuses (so-called “registrations”). Such “registrations”
took place in Russia from 1718 onwards; the tenth and last “registration
was made in 1857-1859.” In a number of districts
redistribution of the land within the village communities took
place on the basis of those recorded in the “registration” lists.
p. 102