Vasily Pavlovich Vorontsov (pseudonym V.V.) - Russian economist, sociologist and publicist, one of the most prominent representatives of the populist trend in Russian economic literature. In the work "Social Transformation of Russia," the author considers the forms of capitalist exploitation in general, and in Russia in particular, studies the unproductive waste of labor in Russia and ways to eliminate them, proposes the replacement of private productive enterprises with public ones. Vorontsov's position is the desire to prove the impossibility of the development of capitalism in Russia. The author of the publication expresses the idea of ​ ​ the need to combine industrial modernization with traditional (community) agricultural production in Russia.