Peter Stolypin
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- Peter Stolypin
- Determined to improve efficiency of Tsarism through conservative reforms and restore law and order after 1905
- Appointed as Prime Minister by the tsar in 1906
- 1906-11- Aimed to encourage private ownership for the peasants, put an end to ***** farming (old and inefficient farming method) and reduce the power of the mir (backwards force of peasants who held control over other peasants
- Peasant Land Bank was created to help peasants leave the commune
- These reforms had little impact, although they may have worked if given more time
- Peasants feared reforms all at once
- Eg Peasants were returning after being moved to Siberia
- These reforms had little impact, although they may have worked if given more time
- 1907- Redemption payments were abolished (serfs paying for freedom)
- Encouraged movement of peasants to undeveloped agricultural areas of Siberia
- Peasant Land Bank was created to help peasants leave the commune
- Politically
- Stolypin organised the repression after 1905 revolution
- Between October 1906 and May 1907- 1144 death sentences were handed out
- 1906-1912- 1000 newspapers were forced out of circulation
- Rejected the first two Dumas as being too radical and resulted in "Stolypin's Coup" in 1907, which stated that to earn a place in the Duma you had to be financially and socially sound
- This reduced the radical elements of the Duma
- Stolypin worked well with the Third Duma
- Stolypin organised the repression after 1905 revolution
- Results
- The Tsar increasingly disliked Stolypin (he defended the Duma and criticised Rasputin) He was too strong minded and full of reforms for the Tsar
- Stolypin's reforms could have brought prosperity for the countryside if it had not been for WW!
- 1906- 45.9m tonnes of grain produced 1913- 61.7m tonnes
- 1905-20% of peasants owned the land they worked on 1915- 50% did
- He did little to alleviate the terrible working and living conditions in the cities
- Political base was weak
- Determined to improve efficiency of Tsarism through conservative reforms and restore law and order after 1905
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