Excerpt from The Jubilee: The Peasant Reform and Proletarian-Peasant Revolution The fiftieth anniversary of the so-called Peasant Reform suggests many interesting questions. Here we can only touch upon some of the economic and histdrical issues, and shall have to leave sociological themes, as such, to another occasion. Ten or fifteen years ago, when the disputes be tween the Narodniks and Marxists were first carried into the broad public arena, their different evaluations of the so-called Peasant Reform time and again occupied one of the foremost places in their controversies. To the theoreticians of N arod ism - the well-known Mr. V. V. Or Nikolai - on,1 for instance - the principles of the Peasant Reform of 1861 were something fundamentally different from capitalism, and fundamentally inimical to it. They affirmed that the Statute of February 19 had legalized the allotment of means of production to the producer, had sanc tioned folk production as distinct'from capital ist production. They regarded the Statute of February 19 as an earnest that Russia's evolu tion would be non-capitalistic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.