Taxation in Russia
Some idea of the terrible condition of things in Russia may be formed . from some figures recently given by the greatest living authority, M. SemenofE, from which it appeared that the peasantry pay more than threefourths of the taxation of the country. At the same time, in many provinces, the whole yearly income of a peasant family, after paying rent and the excessive taxes, is only from three to five pounds, just sufficient to buy a few pounds of black bread daily. The death-rate therefore is excessive, famine being always at the door, and tryphus and diptheria hard by. Who can wonder that Communism is rapidly spreading in Russia under such circumstances, and that there are signs of a fast-coming political revolution? If rulers sow the wind, they must expect to reap the whiiiwind.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 61, 31 October 1885, Page 3
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