V. I. Lenin

ON THE QUESTION OF
OUR FACTORY STATISTICS

( Professor Karyshev's New Statistical Exploits )



Written in August 1898
 
Published in 1898 in the collection,
Economic Studies and Essays,
by Vladimir Ilyin

Published according to
the text in the collection
 
 
 



From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972,

First printing 1960
Second printing 1964
Third printing 1972

Vol. 4, pp. 13-45.

Translated by Joe Fineberg and by George Hanna
Edited by Victor Jerome


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@cruzio.com (November 1997)

see footnote[*]

1879

1890

1894-95

Number of

Value of
output
(thous.
rubles)

Number of

Value of
output
(thous.
rubles)

Number of

Value of
output
(thous.
rubles)

Factor-
ies

Workers

Factor-
ies

Workers

Factor-
ies

Workers


All "factories"
 
Establishments with
100 or more workers
 


27,986
 
 
1,238
 


763,152
 
 
509,643
 


1,148,134
 
 
629,926
 


21,124
 
 
1,431
 


875,764
 
 
623,146
 


1,500,871
 
 
858,588
 


14,578
 
 
1,468
 


885,555
 
 
655,670
 


1,345,346
 
 
955,233
 

Percentage of total

--

66.8

54.8

--

71.1

57.2

--

74

70.8

  * The same sources. Some data for 1879, as already mentioned, have been added approximately. The general data of the Directory and the List are incomparable with each other, but here we compare only percentages of the total number of workers and of the total value of output, and these data in their totals are much more reliable (as we shall show later) than the data on the total number of factories. The estimate of large establishments is taken from Capitalism in Russia, which the present writer is preparing for print.[5]



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