Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The DEVELOPMENT of CAPITALISM in RUSSIA

Chapter VII. The Development of Large-Scale Machine Industry


Written: 1896-1899.
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 4th Edition, Moscow, 1964, Volume 3, pp. 454-551
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)
Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive (2000). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.


Contents

I. The Scientific Conception of the Factory and the Significance of “Factory” Statistics 454
II. Our Factory Statistics 456
III. An Examination of Historico-Statistical Data On the Development of Large-Scale Industry 468
IV. The Development of the Mining Industry 484
V. Is the Number of Workers in Large Capitalist Enterprises Growing? 496
VI. Steam-Engine Statistics 507
VII. The Growth of Large Factories 509
VIII. The Distribution of Large-Scale Industry 518
IX. The Development of the Lumber and Building Industries 525
X. The Appendage to the Factory 534
XI. The Complete Separation of Industry From Agriculture 536
XII. Three Stages in the Development of Capitalism in Russian Industry 541