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“Cut-off-lands” (otrezki)—the pasture lands woods, etc., which
the landlords “cut off,” i.e., of which they deprived the peasants
when serfdom was abolished in Russia. p. 194
Temporarily-bound peasants—serfs who, after the abolition
of serfdom in 1861, were obliged to perform certain services
for the landlords, i.e., do corvée service or pay quit-rent.
The “temporarily-bound status” continued until the peasants,
by agreement with the landlords, had acquired their allotments
by the payment of redemption money. The landlords were
obliged to accept redemption payments only after the edict of
1881, by which the “obligatory relation” between the peasants
and the landlords had to cease as from January 1, 1883. p. 194
The two volumes of The Influence of Harvests and Grain Prices
on Certain Aspects of the Russian National Economy reached
Lenin in the village of Shushenskoye in 1897. He made a
careful study of them while working on The Development of
Capitalism in Russia, as is proved by his numerous marginal
comments in the volumes. While he exposed the method which
the Narodniks were so fond of employing, the distortion of the
actual situation by quoting “average” statistics which in fact
obscured the differentiation of the peasantry, Lenin carefully
checked and made use of the concrete material in the volumes.
Thus, on page 153 of Vol. 1 Lenin drew up a table showing the
distribution, in the different gubernias of Russia, of the various
forms of economy (capitalist, labour-service, and mixed). This
material, along with some additions from other sources, went
to make up the table given in the text. p. 196
Cultivation of cycles—an enslaving form of labour-service
rendered to the landlord by the peasant as rental for land obtained
from him in post-Reform Russia. The landlord lent the peasant
land or made him a loan in cash or kind for which the peasant
undertook to cultivate a “cycle,” using his own implements and
draught animals; this meant cultivating one dessiatine of spring
crops and one of winter crops, occasionally supplemented by
reaping a dessiatine of crops. p. 198
Skopshchina—the name given in the southern parts of Russia
to the payment of land rent in kind, on terms of bondage, the
tenant paying the landowner “s kopny” (from the corn-shock)
a portion of the harvest (a half, and sometimes more), and usually
fulfilling miscellaneous labour services in addition. p. 201
Villeins—feudally dependent peasants in ancient Rus (9th-
13th centuries) who performed corvée service for the
princes and other temporal and clerical lords and also paid rent
in kind. The feudal lords seized the land of the villeins and compelled
them to work on the feudal estates.