STOLYPIN IMPORTANT
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- Created on: 05-04-17 09:40
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- Why was Stolypin important, 1906-1911?
- Stolypin's role
- Prime Minister of Russia
- Assassinatedin 1911
- Opposed rev groups and supported agrarian reform
- Understood making peasants happy = no rebellion
- End of 1907-Tsar's supporters dominated Duma
- Land reform
- Nov 1906-Law passed to make it easier for peasants to get away from communes
- Nov 1906-Peasant Land Bank established
- Provided incentives and gov loans to move to Siberia
- Impact of reforms
- 1905 = 20% of peasants owned land, 1915 = 50% of peasants
- Agricultural production increased
- Little was done to improve living conditions
- Industrial unrest = Lena Goldfield Massacre 1912
- WW1 halted further improvements
- Success of reforms
- Peasants who owned land became more loyal to Tsar
- 3rd and 4th Duma didn't oppose Tsar
- 1906-1907=more peasants taking opportunities
- Failures of reforms
- Land reforms had limited impact on cities
- Stolypin weakened the Dumas
- Peasants who accepted reforms from more prosperous areas of Russia
- Stolypin's role
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