Economics: 1905-1914

Stolypin and land reform
1. De-relovutionising the peasants: peasants crippled by mortgage repayments, led to inefficient farming and social unrest thus repayments were cancelled to restore peasant sense of security
2. 'Wager on the strong': replaced strip system with independent farming, land bank established to provide funds for setting up independent farms, intended to create a new wealthier peasant class, also included schemes to populate remoter areas such as Siberia
3. Strengths: Tsarist tax returns show that peasants were paying higher taxes in 1890s, sign that their farming was producing high profits, Stolypin's land policy showed co-operation within the duma,
4. Failures: Peasantry still remained conservative thus unwilling to change, progress wasn't enough modernise Russian agriculture, Stolypin's assasination led to decrease in peasants setting up farms
Economy after Witte
1. Economic spurt of 1890's resulted in increase in population of towns and cities, govt did not effectively deal with this which lead to poverty in cities
2. Economic expansion however not much benefitted workers the number which was rapidly increasing, led to increased strikes and disturbances
3. Some suggest that before WW1, Russia was in process of developing into a modern industrial state, therefore economic expansion was interrupted by WW1 and political problems
4. Russia's economic was relatively stable yet not strong enough to deal with the rising social and political pressures of the time such as striking

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