Stolypin

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  • Stolypin
    • Repression
      • tensions increasing due to poor living conditions
        • 1906- 1000 rip in terrorist attacks
          • rose to 3000 in 07
        • 15,000 dead in clashes with the army
      • in 1906- stolyipin called a state of emergancy
        • gave him the power to arrest anyone without a trail for up to 6 months
        • field martial courts set up
          • trials would happen in secret and within 24hrs of the crime  being committed
            • 1000 were killed 06-07
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              • many more were exiled
    • actions against revolutionary parties
      • most leaders were sent into exile eg Trotsky was exiled to siberia
      • dissolution of the second duma
        • B members were imprisoned
      • 2000 arrested in the black earth region
      • overall weakened opposition organistion and demoralised
      • expropriation
        • drew more attention to rev parties as they robbed banks to increase funds
    • Land reforms
      • aimed to break up the village communes and start private ownership
        • economic benefits
          • increased insentive to improve land
          • increased productivity
        • political benefits
          • Peasents could develop attatchment to private ownership
            • denouncing socialism
          • aloows tsarist regaime to survive
      • set up land org committees
      • successful?
        • limited
          • 1914- only 20% had left the commune
            • 10% of which still had links to communes (owned strips)
          • other fators could have attributed  eg 09-13= good harvets
    • emigration to siberia
      • ferilte land - offered land as cheap or free to encorage settlement
        • 06-13 20% failed
    • critics
      • church
        • wanted to reform education -4 yrs from 8
      • factory owners
        • wanted to introduce a compensation scheme for wounded workers
      • nobles
        • wanted to increase powers of Zemstva and streamline local gov

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