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A MUSHIK FAMILY.

the Russian mushiks to hopeless misery would he to write
the internal history of Russia for the last half-century, but
some of the principal points may be mentioned. Since the
emancipation a new element has entered the life of the
peasants—capitalism, with its invariable result of
proletarianism. Before this the mushik was a chattel, a part of
his master’s capital, to be maintained in as an efficient
condition as the rest of his goods. Afterwards he was forced
into the arena as a nominally “free” competitor with his
former masters in the struggle for existence. It did not
need the inspired insight of a prophet to foresee on which
side victory would lie—on that of the capitalists on the one
hand, armed with all the formidable weapons of modern
finance, with absolute autocracy for their ally, or of the
mushiks on the other, with their ignorance, servility, and
fatalism bred of centuries of serfdom, in which they were

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