Stolypin: Prime Minister 1906 - 1911

Policies

• Land reforms- offered limited change
• Laid foundations for the creation of a health service and insurance 
• Education was extended 
• Restricted voting in the 3rd and subsequent Duma 
• Decline of the nobility

Focus on agriculture

1906: Land made personal property

1906: Gets rid redemption pays (better for peasants)

1907: Peasant families allowed to leave communes

Other changes in agriculture:

• encourages less populated emmigration 
• grain production increased 
• peasants can now buy better quality land 
• peasants encouraged to consolidate their holdings; makes farming…