Excerpts from the Book 'On the Question of Our Factory Statistics':

... of Factories and Works the last (third) edition of which was issued in 1894. Much earlier, in 1869, a list of factories was printed in the notes ...
... for the accuracy of the figures, as before, still rests with the factory owners. Representatives of the Factory Inspectorate were not only unable ...
... all these criteria remained, as usual, a voice crying in the wilderness, and our factory statistics have remained in their former chaotic state. From ...
... or factory installations.[*] We must examine this definition in detail (the points we have stressed are particularly unclear), but let us first ...
... In Section II (wool processing), in the same Vladimir Gubernia, we find hand factories that card wool belonging to others for the payment of 12-48 ...
... can go so far as to produce statistics similar to those published in the sixties in the well-known Military Statistical Abstract that for European ...
... to compare them for these years, since different definitions of factory and different methods of excluding small establishments were employed in all ...
... no less than 2,000 rubles. The number of establishments of this type may be considered approximately comparable (although there can never be a complete ...
... from Capitalism in Russia, which the present writer is preparing for print.[5]     It can be seen from this table that the number ...
... is to be explained primarily by the purely fortuitous registration, specifically in these gubernias, of small establshmcnts such as were not ...
... the number of factories in Perm Gubernia was 1,001, 895, 951, 846, 917, and 1,002 respectively, following which, in 1891, the figure suddenly ...
... is what he should have done in the first place, in view of the fact that the List regards the number of workers as an important distinguishing feature ...
... Empire) must not be regarded as an indication of how far advanced in Russia is the development of the so-called outside department of the factory (Karyshev, ...
... factories with an output valued at less than 5,000 rubles constitute 30.8 per cent of the total number, but account for only O.6 per cent of the total ...
... million poods valued at 4.3 million rubles, while in 1894-95 the majority of the mills recorded only payment for milling, so that their total output (1.8 ...
... to this complicated question. With regard to the checking of the information, it must be said in particular that the Factory Inspectorate will, naturally, ...
... has to be made between an industrial census and statistics of the present-day type. It is only possible and necessary to strive for complete information ...
... the whole of Russia would probably not be more than 15,000-16,000) moreover, the volume of information on each card is incomparably greater: there ...
... expressed the views of the moderate liberal intelligentsia. Among its contributors in the 1880s and 1890s were the democratic writers V G. Korolenko, ...
... uncompromising opposition to the war and the Provisional Government and irreconcilable hostility toward all supporters of both he proposed that ...