V. I.   Lenin

NOTEBOOK “γ”

(“GAMMA”)


 

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

Conrad’s Jahrb\"ucher f\"ur National\"okonomie, etc., III series, Vol. 49 (1915, January), p. 351.

|| Zak Small item (in “Miscellaneous”) by Waldecker on a book in Russian, by A. N. Zak, Germans and German Capital in Russian Industry (St. Petersburg, 1914)—(Zak director of the Central Bank of Mutual Credit Societies).

Total Share Capital in Russia:
(million rubles)
Russian Foreign Σ
(round
figures)
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
(“operating” in Russia)
foreign ... 196

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 . . . . . . . . . 1/2 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 Gubernia
and Baltic provinces)
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Σ not given by the author
 

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