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Stolypin
- Repression
- 1906-12 = 1000
newspapers seized
publication and 600 trade
unions forced to close.
- 1908-09 = Stolypin's
courts convicted
16,500 of political
crimes.
- 3600
sentenced to
death.
- 4500
sentenced to
hard labour in
prison camps.
- Restoration of law
and order
Stolypin's great
achievements.
- Reformer
- Aware social and
economic reform essential
to prevent another
revolution (and preserve
Tsarism).
- Modernise
agriculture - not just
produce higher
yield, but also
create a
prosperous class
of peasant = more
loyal to Tsar.
- Rose from 45.9
million tonnes in
1906 to 61.7
million tonnes in
1913.
- Disrupted by WWI.
- Law of 9th Nov. 1906 - freed
peasants from control of commune.
- No longer needed
permission to leave mers.
- 1905 - 20% owned own land. 1915 - 50%
- 15th Nov 1906 - Peasant
Land Bank instructed to
give loans to peasants who
wanted to leave the
commune.
- Little done to
improve working and
living conditions.
- New Years Day 1907 -
redemption payments
abolished.
- June 1910 - reform
dissolved all communes
where no distribution of land
had taken place since the
Emancipation of the Serfs
(1861).
- Encourages peasants to
move to undeveloped
agricultural areas of Siberia.
- Assassination in 1911