62 SOCIAL SCIENTIST time to time in India and abroad.1 But no existing work presents the main contributions of Lenin on the agrarian question in a convenient and comprehensive form. The task is difficult and its nature can be surmised from the bibliography given below. (Volume and page references are to V I Lenin, Collected Works, volumes I-XXXXV, Progress Publishers, 1960s). 1 New Economic Developments in Peasant Life (on V Y Postnikov's PEASANT FARMING IN SOUTH RUSSIA), 5 chapters, 1893, first published 1923, L pp 13-73. This was a review of Peasant Farming in South Russia, Moscow 1891, pp XXXI 1-1-391, based primarily on the ^.emslvo2 statistical investigations in three gubernias as well as on personal observations. This material was used in the second chapter of Lenin's work on the development of capitalism in Russia. 2 ^Chapter IV: How Mr Struve Explains Some Features of Russia's Post-reform Economy", I, pp 451-507, in The Economic Content of Narodism and the Criticism of It in Mr Struve's Book, (The Reflection of Marxism in Bourgeois Literature) - A Review of P Struve, CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE SUBJECT OF RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, St Petersburg 1894, written 1894-95, first published 1895, I, pp 333-507. The relevant section is a criticism of the last chapter of Struve's book dealing with (a) the character of overpopulation in agrarian Russia, (b) the problem of the break-up of the peasantry, (c) the part played by industrial capitalism in ruining the peasantry, (d) private landowner farming and (e) the problem of markets for Russian capitalism. 3 The Development of Capitalism in Russia, The Process of Formation of a Home Market for Large-scale Industry, III, pp 23-607, written 1896-99, first published 1899, second edition 1908. Select chapters and sections: ^Conclusions from Chapter II", chapter II, section XIII, pp 172-187. ^The Landowners9 Transition from Corvee to Capitalist Economy", chapter III, pp 191-251. ^Conclusions on the Significance of Capitalism in Russian Agriculture", chapter IV, section IX, pp 310-318. ^Narodnik Theories on Capitalism in Agriculture", chapter IV, section X, pp 318-323. ^Continuation—The Village Community—Marx's View on Small-scale Agriculture—Engels's Opinion on the Contemporary Agricultural Crisis", chapter IV, section XI, pp 323-330. ^Some Remarks on the Pre-capitalist Economy of Our Countryside", chapter V, section IX, pp 380-383. Lenin started writing this book in prison and completed it in exile after three years of work. Over 500 different books, abstracts, research papers, reviews and articles were cited or quoted in this book. In this, Lenin demolished the Narodnik assertion of the impossiblity of capitalist development in Russia.