. The earth and its inhabitants .. . arable land ; and thousands of the peasantry have either received nothing, or only allotments too small or too unproductive to yield a living. On an average these holdings are sufficient to supply the bare necessaries of existence, the rest being procured either by badly paid labour on the large estates, or by advances from the Jews, who have thus in many places gradually become the owners of the land itself. This again has driven many to seek work elsewhere, and, in the language of Nekrasov, "the Russian railways are laid with the bones of White Russi

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. The earth and its inhabitants .. . arable land ; and thousands of the peasantry have either received nothing, or only allotments too small or too unproductive to yield a living. On an average these holdings are sufficient to supply the bare necessaries of existence, the rest being procured either by badly paid labour on the large estates, or by advances from the Jews, who have thus in many places gradually become the owners of the land itself. This again has driven many to seek work elsewhere, and, in the language of Nekrasov, "the Russian railways are laid with the bones of White Russian ;

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