ON THE ISSUE OF PROPERTY AND SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF RUSSIAN PEASANTS IN THE LATE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE VORONEZH PROVINCE)
The article, based on the analysis of statistical data of the household census of peasants of the Voronezh province, compiled at the end of the XIX century by the famous domestic statistician F.A. Shcherbina, and the economic calculations of V.I. Lenin, reveals the contradictory processes of property and social differentiation in the Russian village of the post-reform period - the beginning of the XX century. A comprehensive analysis of the materials allowed the author to draw conclusions that the transformation of the patriarchal way of life ofpeasants towards bourgeois relations took place slowly and had a limited, contradictory character. Against the background of the emerging small stratum of the rural bourgeoisie, a huge mass of the rural poor continued to exist.