The Revolution in the Factories
as a kind of village blacksmith or a shoemaker in a little town. He is, on the contrary, a workman in great, even ultramodern, factories. The giant factory predominates, and its plant is often up to date. Factories employing more than one thousand workmen represent a larger proportion in Russia than even in the United States. This is easily explained by the youth and the rapid economical growth of the ancient Empire of the Czars. The needs of national manufacture date only from yesterday, but they are developing with surprising force and rapidity. The factories, being of recent date, are planned on the latest technical designs, and as they are justified in anticipating an immense and rapid development of their business, these plans are conceived on a very large scale. That is the case in all parts of the country where industries already exist, in the Donetz as in the petroleum district of the Caucasus, and even near Moscow, where the textile industry is relatively old. But it is in Petrograd especially that the phenomenon is the most striking. We might find in other parts of the world,
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