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Some Early Family Budget Studies of Russian Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2019

Nancy Baster
Nancy Baster*
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The work of Le Play, Ducpétiaux and Engel on family budget studies first attracted interest in Russia in the 1890's, at a time when zemstvo statisticians had already started to make some sample household surveys. In the twenty years before the Revolution a number of extensive studies of peasant households and a handful of small studies of workers' households were made.

There were a few isolated Russian studies before this time, but the earliest and most complete studies of peasants and workers in Russia were made by Le Play himself in 1844 and 1853.

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Research Article
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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 1958 , pp. 468 - 480
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1958

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References

1 Le Play, F., Les Ouvriers europeens, (2nd edition, Tours, 1877-79), Vol. II Google Scholar.

2 Ibid., p. 61.

3 Marshall, A., Principles of Economics, (8th edition, London, 1930), p. 116 Google Scholar, footnote.

4 Le Play has much in common with that other traveller from Europe, Baron von Haxthausen, who was also visiting Russia in 1843-44, and whose description of the village commune provided fuel for the Slavophile theories of a typically Russian form of industrial development based on the commune. It would be interesting to know if the two men met. The study of Russian Slavophile theories could perhaps be supplemented by a study of their European counterparts and those who thought they had found in Russia an answer to some of the problems besetting Europe.

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6 Ibid.

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10 Ibid., p. 363.

11 Ibid., p. 355.

12 von Haxthausen, A., The Russian Empire, (London, 1865), p. vii Google Scholar, footnote. According to this in 1843-44 the silver ruble was equal to 3/2 ½d in English currency. The franc fluctuated around 25.60 francs to the English pound in January, 1844, according to the London Times. A more direct quotation would strengthen the argument that follows.

13 S. Strumilin, “Oplata truda v Rossii,” p. 140.

14 S. Strumilin, Istorija chernoj metallurgii v S. S. S. R., p. 385.

15 Ibid., p. 386.

16 Otechestvennija Zapiski, (St. Petersburg, 1825), XXII, 100.

17 M. Tugan-Baranovskij, op. cit., p. 81.

18 S. Strumilin, “Oplata truda v Rossii,” p. 141.

19 S. Strumilin, Istorija chernoj metallurgii v S. S. S. R., p. 289.

20 A. von Haxthausen, op. cit., p. 147.

21 S. Strumilin, Istorija chernoj metallurgii v S. S. S. R., pp. 395-96.

22 T. S. Ashton and J. Sykes, The Coal Industry of the Eighteenth Century, 1929. See ch. V on “The Scottish collier serf.“