Repression after 1905
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- Created on: 25-04-15 15:37
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- Repression
- Duma
- First elected parliament
- Executions
- Nooses now labelled "Stolypin's neckties"
- 3,600 sentenced to death in 1908-1909
- Also sentenced people to hard labour in prison camps
- Stolypin
- Minister of the interior
- Governor of the Saratov province during the revolution
- Showed ruthlessness and efficiency in dealing with revolutionaries
- Met terror with terror
- Field court marshals (military style)
- Destroyed the basis of revolutionary activity
- Shut trade unions etc
- Reactionary
- Assassinated in 1911 by a social revolutionary
- Reformer
- Wanted to produce a higher class of peasant
- Wanted to modernise Russian agriculture
- Agricultural production rose significantly
- Freed the peasants from the Mir
- No longer needed the permission from the majoity of the Mir's members
- Abolished redemption payments
- Instructed the land bank to give loans to peasants that want to leave their communes
- Abolished all communes that had not redistributed peasant land since the emancipation
- Encouraged peasants to move to underdeveloped areas such as Siberia on the incentive of cheap land financed by government loans
- By 1915 50% of peasants had ownership of their own land
- Stunted by WW1
- Aftermath of 1905
- Sporadic peasant uprisings continued during 1906 and 1907
- In 1907 over 1200 government officials were murdered in terrorist attacks
- Fell to just over 300 in 1908 after significant repression
- Little done to aid the working and living conditions of the workers
- Duma
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