Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The DEVELOPMENT of CAPITALISM in RUSSIA

Chapter III. The Landowners’ Transition from Corvée to Capitalist Economy

Written: 1896-1899.
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th Edition, Moscow, 1964, Volume 3, pp. 189-251
Publisher: Progress Publishers
First Published: First printed in book form at the end of March 1899. Published according to the text of the second edition, 1908.
Original Transcription & Markup: R. Cymbala (2000)
Re-Marked up by: Kevin Goins (2008)
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Contents

I. The Main Features of Corvée Economy 191
II. The Combination of the Corvée and the Capitalist Systems of Economy 193
III. Description of the Labour-Service System 198
IV. The Decline of the Labour-Service System 205
V. The Narodnik Attitude to the Problem 210
VI. The Story of Engelhardt’s Farm 215
VII. The Employment of Machinery in Agriculture 219
VIII. The Significance of Machinery in Agriculture 228
IX. Wage-Labour in Agriculture 237
X. The Significance of Hired Labour in Agriculture 242

 

Note

The first six sections of this chapter originally appeared as an article in the journal Nachalo (Beginning ), Issue No. 3, March 1899 (pp. 96-117) under the title of “The Dislodgement of Corvée by Capitalist Economy in Contemporary Russian Agriculture.” The article was accompanied by the following editorial note: “This article is an extract from the author’s considerable investigation of the development of capitalism in Russia.” [p. 191]

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