CHAPTER XIII. AGRICULTURE ON A LARGE SCALE 138

The peasantist view of the matter--_The destinies of capitalism in Russia_, by V. V.--Large agriculture and peasant farming--Backwardness of large agriculture--The latter still prevailing over small peasant tenure--Agriculture progressing with the increase of the estate--The beginnings of capitalistic agriculture--Decrease in the dominions of the nobility--Growth of capitalistic property in land--Displacement of the small tenant by the capitalist farmer--Progressive tendencies of capitalistic management--Substitution of the small farmer by the proletarian laborer--Economic dependence of the nobility upon the small farmer--Imminent ruin of the landed nobility.