**Lecture I.** General theory of the agrarian question. Formation of capitalist agriculture. Various forms of the growth of commercial agriculture and the formation of a class of agricultural wage-laborers. Marx's theory of rent. The bourgeois character of the teachings of the so-called critical school (Messrs. Bulgakov, Hertz, David, Chernov, partly Maslov, etc.), which attempts to explain by natural laws (such as the notorious law of diminishing soil fertility) the existence of the tribute levied upon society by landowners. Contradictions of capitalism in agriculture.

**Lecture II.** Small and large-scale production in agriculture.

Efforts of the so-called critical school to obscure the enslavement of the small producer in contemporary society. Analysis of monographic investigations completely misunderstood by this school (M. Hecht, C. Klawické, Auhajen).

**Lecture III.** Continuation. The Baden Inquiry. Complete confirmation of Marxist views by its results. General data from German agrarian statistics. The fable of the degeneration of latifundia under large capital. Machinery in agriculture. Greatest deterioration of draft animals in the middle-peasant farm. Cooperatives in agriculture; German mass data of 1895 on dairy associations. Difference in form between cooperatives in agriculture and trusts in industry, which prevented the so-called critical school from understanding the complete homogeneity of the two in their socio-economic content.

**Lecture IV.** The agrarian question as it stands in Russia. Foundations of the Populist worldview and its historical significance as a primitive form of agrarian democracy. The central significance of the peasant question (the commune and folk production). The decomposition of the peasantry into rural bourgeoisie and rural proletariat. Methods of studying this process and its significance. The replacement of corvée economy by capitalist economy. The reactionary character of Populist views. The demands of the present historical moment: elimination of the remnants of serfdom and free development of class struggle in the countryside.