Peasant farms of Western Siberia on the way to commodity-market relations: factor analysis of data from the Tomsk Provincial Agricultural Census of 1901

The article considers the application of factor analysis in study peasant farms Oyashinsky volost Tomsk province on materials provincial agricultural Census 1901. primary census 1901 was carried out basis analysis, namely, method main components, which provides "compression" information, explaining many available features through a small number generalized factors, allowed us to consider internal structure economy and livestock specialization parish, also compare results obtained with According 1901, socio-economic transition zone showed that entrepreneurial way life leading all farms, but general small-scale reduced level their involvement capitalist relations. Peasant at beginning XX century never joined developed make it possible analyze detail influence various factors state Siberia turn XIX–XX centuries. These are suitable as mass source for studying peasantry local research.