ON ZAK'S BOOK GERMANS AND GERMAN CAPITAL IN RUSSIAN INDUSTRY (original) (raw)

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “γ”

(“GAMMA”)

ON ZAK’S BOOK GERMANS AND GERMAN CAPITAL IN RUSSIAN INDUSTRY

Conrad’s Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie, etc., III series, Vol. 49 (1915, January), p. 351.

| Small item (in “Miscellaneous”) by Waldecker ona book in Russian, by A. N. Zak, Germans and GermanCapital in Russian Industry (St. Petersburg, 1914)—(Zak director of the Central Bank of Mutual CreditSocieties). | | | Zak | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | --- |

Total Share Capital in Russia:
(million rubles)
Russian Foreign Σ
(roundfigures) 1903— 41.7 +16.8 = 58.5
1904— — 92.5 26.7 119.2
1905— — — 64.3 8.0 72.3
1910— — — 190.5 33.7 224.2
1912— — — 371.2 30.3 401.5
Number of Russian companies ... 1,237 capital = 410.3
foreign ... 196 (“operating”in Russia)
These companies have their head offices in:
Germany — — — 24 companies Switzerland . . . . . . . . . 6
Sweden — — — 3 ” Italy . . . . . . . . . 1
Britain — — — 33 ” Austria . . . . . . . . . 3
Holland . . . 2 ” Turkey . . . . . . . . . 1
Belgium . . . 70 ” U.S.A. . . . . . . . . . 6
France. . . . 48 ”
Branches of Industry
German capital Its profit
(million rubles)
1) Iron and steel . . . . . . . . . 20 (1912) 5.5
2) Machine building . . . . . . . . . 11.5
3) Engineering . . . . . . . . . 38.5
4) Soda . . . . . . . . . ½ of total capital
5) Electrical . . . . . . . . . 50
6) Electrical engineering . . . . . . . . . 57
7) Gas . . . . . . . . . 12.5=71.8% of total capital;
+12.6% French
+ 7.4% Belgian
+ 8.2% Russian
8) Petroleum (Deutsche Bank) . . . . . . . . . 20
9) Textiles . . . . . . . . . (34-50% in Moscow Guberniaand Baltic provinces)
Σ not given by the author

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