Degradation of peasantry of Russia is not simply material

Degradation of peasantry of Russia is not simply material. It also morally. In language of the recent traveller, 'they - drunkenest people in Europe.' The basic - some kind of the whisky named 'vodka'. With intoxication there is also a dirt, idleness, dishonourableness, and inveracity. And for the present has been a little made to raise quality of this degradation. Ignorance prevails everywhere. Even it is more than young men of a country class than eighty percent. Cannot read, write. There is no middle class. The gulf between the higher estate also is more low so wide not to be accepted at all. And generally the higher estate is rather enough to have this conjuncture, proceed.
'ARTELS' OF THE RUSSIAN PEASANTS