Stolypins repression 1906-1914
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- Stolypin's repression 1906 - 1914
- Stolypin's repression
- August 1906 and 1911 Stolypin declared a state of emergency and suspended the Fundamental laws allowing the government to use terror against the people
- Officials were given the right to imprison people without putting them on trial
- Lawyers and appeals were banned from Military courts.
- Military courts had the right to exile or execute rebels, appeals not permitted
- 1906-1910 Stolypin's courts found 37,620 people guilty of political crimes
- 8,640 were sent tolabout camps
- 1858 were resettled to Russia's deserts or Siberia (frozen wasteland)
- many died as a result of 'resttlemtn' as the people were unable to survive in the areas they were moved to
- Stolypin's name became associated with the brutal policies
- The trains that carried people to exile became known as 'Stolypin's wagons'
- The hangman's noose used was named 'Stolypin's necktie'
- August 1906 and 1911 Stolypin declared a state of emergency and suspended the Fundamental laws allowing the government to use terror against the people
- Background information
- 1906-1911 Stolypin acted as the Tsars head of government
- Stolypin attempted to restore order through a policy of repression
- Actions of the revolutionary parties
- 1906-1907
- Repression of revolutionaries was widespread and brutal
- despite repression the revolutionaries campagined for assassinations of leading government officlas
- Despite repression revolutionary leaders fled Russia,
- Lenin was one of those who fled the country
- 1907 - 1914
- Head of the police Maksimilian Trusevich established 8 regional security bureaus to target revolutionary parties
- The oversaw the dissolution of the 2nd Duma
- Arrested and persecuted those revolutionaries in the 2nd Duma
- Trusevich tried to limit the amount of executions and disrupt revolutionary parties
- By 1913 there were 94 agents working within revolutionary groups in St Peterburg
- Head of the police Maksimilian Trusevich established 8 regional security bureaus to target revolutionary parties
- 1906-1907
- Police failings
- broadly effective at disrupting revolutionary parties
- failed to stop revolutionary newspapers
- freedom of speech as a result of fundamental laws
- Mensheviks set up the Luch newspaper
- Bolsheviks set up Pravda newspaper
- Tried to close it 8 times between 1912 and 1914
- always re-emerged after being shut down
- Stolypin's repression
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