Chapter 6- Stolypin Repression And Reform Flashcards
How many government officials were murdered in terrorist attacks in 1907?
1200
When was stolypin chairman of the council of ministers?
1906-1911
How many death sentences did stolypin allow field marshals to hand out between October 1906 and may 1907?
1144
How many newspapers were forced to cease publication between 1906 and 1912?
1000
When were six hundred trade unions forced to close?
Between 1906 and 1912
During 1907 and 1909 stolypins courts convicted 16,500 people of political crimes. How many people were sentenced to death, and how many to hard labour?
3600 to death
4500 to hard labour
What did the number of political assassinations fall to in 1908?
365
What did the law of 9 November 1906 do? (Stolypin)
It freed peasants from the control of the commune
What was the peasant land bank instructed to do on the 15th of November 1906?
Give loans to peasants who wanted to leave the communes
When were redemption payments abolished?
New Year’s Day 1907
When were all communes where no land had been redistributed since emancipation dissolved?
June 1910
How many peasants had ownership of their own land in 1905 and 1915?
1905-20%
1915-50%
What happened to agricultural production from 1906 to 1913?
It rose from 45.9 million tonnes to 61.7 million tonnes.
When did the Lena goldfield massacre occur?
1912 in Siberia. Strikers killed by police
When was the first Duma established?
April 1906
How long did the first Duma last?
72 days
What was the nickname of the first Duma?
The Duma of public anger
Who boycotted the elections of the first Duma?
The SR and Bolsheviks
Why was the first Duma dissolved?
After trying to introduce reforms for land and the release of political prisoners,they were refused, the Duma passed a vote of no confidence in the Russian prime minister Ivan Goremykin.
How many requests did the first Duma make?
391, only 2 were passed
What was the Vyborg Manifesto?
After the first Duma was dissolved, a group of its deputies tried to convince the people to resist the Tsars action by refusing to pay their taxes
What happened because of the Vyborg manifesto?
200 deputies were banned from standing for the next Duma
How long did the second Duma last?
3 months (February- June 1907)
What did the second Duma strongly criticise?
The administration of the army, angering the tsar. This caused him to have the police frame radical members of the Duma for trying to encourage mutinies
When was the third Duma?
November 1907-June 1912
What was the third Dumas nickname?
The Duma of lords and lackeys
When was the fourth Duma?
November 1912-august 1914
Who could vote in the third and fourth Dumas?
Only the richest 30% of the male population
What were the successes of the third and fourth Dumas?
They introduced land captains
They introduced a plan to have universal primary education in ten years
Health and accident insurance program’s were introduced for industrial workers
Improvements were made to the army and navy
