Collected Works, Volume 3
Published on 22. January 2019
664 pages
978-1-78873-260-4 (ISBN)
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Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to understand capitalism, the Russian Revolution, and the role of communism in the tumultuous political and social movements that have shaped the modern world, the works of Lenin offer unparalleled insight and understanding.
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924), better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He played a leading role in the Bolshevik revolution of October 1917.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- The Development of Capitalism in Russia
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Chapter I: The Theoretical Mistakes of the Narodnik Economists
- I. The Social Division of Labour
- II. The Growth of the Industrial Population at the Expense of the Agricultural
- III. The Ruin of the Small Producers
- IV. The Narodnik Theory of the Impossibility of Realising Surplus-Value
- V. The Views of Adam Smith on the Production and Circulation of the Aggregate Social Product in Capitalist Society and Marx's Criticism of These Views
- VI. Marx's Theory of Realisation
- VII. The Theory of the National Income
- VIII. Why Does the Capitalist Nation Need a Foreign Market?
- IX. Conclusions from Chapter I
- Chapter II: The Differentiation of the Peasantry
- I. Zemstvo Statistics for Novorossia
- II. Zemstvo Statistics for Samara Gubernia
- III. Zemstvo Statistics for Saratov Gubernia
- IV. Zemstvo Statistics for Perm Gubernia
- V. Zemstvo Statistics for Orel Gubernia
- VI. Zemstvo Statistics for Voronezh Gubernia
- VII. Zemstvo Statistics for Nizhni-Novgorod Gubernia
- VIII. Review of Zemstvo Statistics for Other Gubernias
- IX. Summary of the Above Zemstvo Statistics on the Differentiation of the Peasantry
- X. Summary of Zemstvo Statistics and Army-Horse Census Returns
- XI. A Comparison of the Army-Horse Censuses of 1888-1891 and 1896-1900
- XII. Zemstvo Statistics on Peasant Budgets
- XIII. Conclusions from Chapter II
- Chapter III: The Landowners' Transition from Corvée to Capitalist Economy
- I. The Main Features of Corvée Economy
- II. The Combination of the Corvée and the Capitalist Systems of Economy
- III. Description of the Labour-Service System
- IV. The Decline of the Labour-Service System
- V. The Narodnik Attitude to the Problem
- VI. The Story of Engelhardt's Farm
- VII. The Employment of Machinery in Agriculture
- VIII. The Significance of Machinery in Agriculture
- IX. Wage-Labour in Agriculture
- X. The Significance of Hired Labour in Agriculture
- Chapter IV: The Growth of Commercial Agriculture
- I. General Data on agricultural Production in Post-Reform Russia and on the Types of Commercial Agriculture
- II. The Commercial Grain-Farming Area
- III. The Commercial Stock-Farming Area. General Data on the Development of Dairy Farming
- IV. Continuation. The Economy of Landlord Farming in the Area Described
- V. Continuation. The Differentiation of the Peasantry in the Dairy-Farming Area
- VI. The Flax-Growing Area
- VII. The Technical Processing of Agricultural Produce
- 1) Distilling
- 2) Beet-Sugar Production
- 3) Potato-Starch Production
- 4) Vegetable-Oil Production
- 5) Tobacco Growing
- VIII. Industrial Vegetable and Fruit Growing
- Suburban Farming
- IX. Conclusions on the Significance of Capitalism in Russian Agriculture
- X. Narodnik Theories on Capitalism in Agriculture. "The Freeing of Winter Time"
- XI. Continuation.-The Village Community.-Marx's Views on Small-Scale Agriculture.-Engels's Opinion of the Contemporary Agricultural Crisis
- Chapter V: The First Stages of Capitalism in Industry
- I. Domestic Industry and Handicrafts
- II. Small Commodity-Producers in Industry. The Craft Spirit in the Small Industries
- III. The Growth of Small Industries after the Reform. Two Forms of This Process and Its Significance
- IV. The Differentiation of the Small Commodity-Producers. Data on House-to-House Censuses of Handicraftsmen in Moscow Gubernia
- V. Capitalist Simple Co-Operation
- VI. Merchant's Capital in the Small Industries
- VII. "Industry and Agriculture"
- VIII. "The Combination of Industry with Agriculture"
- IX. Some Remarks on the Pre-Capitalist Economy of Our Countryside
- Chapter VI: Capitalist Manufacture and Capitalist Domestic Industry
- I. The Rise of Manufacture and Its Main Features
- II. Capitalist Manufacture in Russian Industry
- 1) The Weaving Industries
- 2) Other Branches of the Textile Industry. The Felt Trade
- 3) The Hat-and-Cap and Hemp-and-Rope Trades
- 4) The Wood-Working Trades
- 5) The Processing of Livestock Produce. The Leather and Fur Trades
- 6) The Remaining Livestock Processing Trades
- 7) The Processing of Mineral Products
- 8) The Metal Trades. The Pavlovo Industries
- 9) Other Metal Trades
- 10) The Jewellery, Samovar and Accordion Trades
- III. Technique in Manufacture. Division of Labour and Its Significance
- IV. The Territorial Division of Labour and the Separation of Agriculture from Industry
- V. The Economic Structure of Manufacture
- VI. Merchant's and Industrial Capital in Manufacture. The "Buyer-up" and the "Factory Owner"
- VII. Capitalist Domestic Industry as an Appendage of Manufacture
- VIII. What Is "Handicraft" Industry?
- Chapter VII: The Development of Large-Scale Machine Industry
- I. The Scientific Conception of the Factory and the Significance of "Factory" Statistics
- II. Our Factory Statistics
- III. An Examination of Historico-Statistical Data on the Development of Large-Scale Industry
- 1) Textile Trades
- 2) Wood-Working Industries
- 3) Chemical, Livestock-Product and Ceramic Industries
- 4) Metallurgical Industries
- 5) Food Industries
- 6) Excise-Paying and Other Trades
- 7) Conclusions
- IV. The Development of the Mining Industry
- V. Is the Number of Workers in Large Capitalist Enterprises Growing?
- VI. Steam-Engine Statistics
- VII. The Growth of Large Factories
- VIII. The Distribution of Large-Scale Industry
- IX. The Development of the Lumber and Building Industries
- X. The Appendage to the Factory
- XI. The Complete Separation of Industry from Agriculture
- XII. Three Stages in the Development of Capitalism in Russian Industry
- Chapter VIII: The Formation of the Home Market
- I. The Growth of Commodity Circulation
- II. The Growth of the Commercial and Industrial Population
- 1) The Growth of the Towns
- 2) The Significance of Home Colonisation
- 3) The Growth of Factory and of Commercial and Industrial Townships and Villages
- 4) Non-Agricultural Outside Employments
- III. The Growth of the Employment of Wage-Labour
- IV. The Formation of a Home Market for Labour-Power
- V. The Significance of the Border Regions. Home or Foreign Market?
- VI. The "Mission" of Capitalism
- Appendix I: Combined table of statistics on small peasant industries of Moscow Gubernia
- Appendix II: Table of statistics on the factory industry of European Russia
- Appendix III: The chief centers of factory industry in European Russia
- Uncritical Criticism
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- III.
- Notes
