The Handicraft Census of 1894-95 in Perm Gubernia and General Problems of “Handicraft” Industry[1]

Written in exile in 1897 · First published in 1898 in the miscellany Economic Studies and Essays by Vladimir Ilyin. Published according to the text in Economic Studies and Essays checked with the text in the miscellany The Agrarian Question by Vl. Ilyin, 1908. · pages 353–458 · Translated by Yuri Sdobnikov and George Hanna, Edited by George Hanna

Contents

ARTICLE ONE 357
I. General Data 358
II. The “Handicraftsman” and Wage-Labour 369
III. “Communal-Labour Continuity” 381
ARTICLE TWO 387
IV. The Agriculture of “Handicraftsmen” 387
V. Large and Small Establishments.—The Incomes of the Handicraftsmen 403
ARTICLE THREE 422
VI. What Is A Buyer-Up? 422
VII. “Gratifying Features” of Handicraft Industry 439
VIII. The Narodnik Programme Of Industrial Policy 445

[1] The article “The Handicraft Census of 1894-95 in Perm Gubernia and General Problems of ‘Handicraft’ Industry” was written by Lenin when in exile in Siberia in August and September 1897, not later than the 7th (19th) of the latter month. The material contained in this article was used by him in his book The Development of Capitalism in Russia.

The article was first published in 1898 in the miscellany Economic Studies and Essays, and reprinted in 1908 in the miscellany The Agrarian Question.