52 SOCIAL SCIENTIST Purchased Area 20.60 Lcased-in Area 38.00 (non-allotment) Total Operated: 204.67 The purchased area has been obtained by fitting a line to the following three points and obtaining the value for 1900 by interpolation: Purchased Land with Peasants (million dessyatines) 1877 5.8 1887 12.6 1905_____23.6 Thus the purchased plus leased land is 38.0+20.6=58.6 million dessyatines amounting to 28.6 percent of total area operated at the turn of the century. This must have risen further in the subsequent decade which saw a continuation of the trend of purchase and lease. 13 Lenin, Development of Capitalism in Russia, pp 102-103. 14 Chayanov, p 68. Emphasis added. is LA Owen, ibid, pp 63-65. About 30 percent of those "separating" from the commune sold their allotments between 1907 and 1910 alone; 3.7 milpon dessyatines were sold. i® Basile Kerblay, "Chayanov and the Theory of the Peasantry as a Specific Type of Economy", in Teodor Shanin (Ed), Peasants and Peasant Societies, London, Penguin Books, 1971, p 157. 17 Among modern models, Bardhan and Srinivasan (op cit) make the least Chayanovian assumption: the tenant-cultivator's income contains two components—share of output on rented land, and wage-income from agricultural labour. Since the wage-rate figures explicitly, equilibrium marginal product of labour is equated to wage-rate. A K Sen however makes the Chayanovian assumption: equilibrium marginal product of labour is below wage rate, being equated to subjective "real labour cost" which is below wage-rate. 18 Harrison, op cit, p 11. 19 Chayanov, p 91. Emphasis added. 20 Lenin, Development of Capitalism in Russia, Preface to first edition, p 4. 21 Ibid, pp 167-170. 22 Chayanov, p 113. »3 A K Sen, op cit, p 442. 24 Ibid, P 443. Emphasis added. 2§ MDobb, An Introduction to Economics, Cambridge University Press, 1926, pp 3-5.