Stolypin's reforms 19016 to 1914
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- Stolypin reforms 1906 to 1914
- By increasing the amount of peasant and small landowners would strengthen the government
- They would prevent the peasants supporting revolutionary groups in order to protect property
- limited land reform would help make Russian agriculture more productive and by doing so would increase the nations wealth
- Impacts of Stolypin's reforms
- In 1905 20% of peasants owned land. by 1915 this had increased to 50%
- Agricultural production increased from 45.9 million tonnes in 1906 to 61.7 million tonnes in 1913
- Between 1906 and 19144. 25% of peasants had left the mirs (communes)
- 1906-1914 3.5 million peasant set up home in Siberia
- 80% of migrants to Siberia settled
- fertilisers, machines, tools and crop rotation increased crop production
- Land reforms has limited impact in cities
- those peasants who accepted Stolypin's incentives were located in more prosporous areas of Russia
- land reforms
- wanted to create a class of landowning peasants. In the hope that if they had land then they'd want to protect their property and abandon revolutionary ideas.
- 1906 reforms
- Introduced important economic reforms 1906
- made it easier for peasants to break away from communes and establish independent farms
- encouraged the peasant land bank to give more loans to buy more land and modern farming equipment
- Emigration to Siberia
- Conditions in much of Siberia were difficult
- Siberia was rich in minerals and there was a large amount of potential farmland
- One of the incentives for moving to Siberia was cheap land
- One of the incentives was interest free loans
- one of the incentives was cheap rail travel to Siberia
- Stolypin indicated that these policies were to encourage more peasants to set up home in Siberia
- By increasing the amount of peasant and small landowners would strengthen the government
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