Stolypin repression and reform
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- Created on: 25-03-15 17:21
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- Stolypin repression and reform
- the tsars chief minister - Peter Stolypin he had to bring stability and control (political) and used ruthless political repression
- government officials murdered in terrorist attacks as peasants unrest continued
- stolypin met terror with terror
- 1144 death sentences in 6 months
- ceased publication of 1000s of newspapers and closed trade unions
- restoration of law and order
- reformer??
- he was aware social and economic reform was necessary
- wanted to modernise Russian agriculture to produce higher yields and create a more prosperous class of peasant
- 1906 - freed peasants from control of communes
- encouraged moves to underdeveloped agriculture areas of Siberia with the incentive of cheap land financed by loans
- 50% of peasants had ownership over their land by 1915
- agriculture production rose but was disrupted by ww1
- no change to working and living conditions
- industrial unrest - Lena Godfield massacre in 1912 in Siberia in which strikers were killed by police
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