ECONOMIC DEV AGRICULTURE STOLYPIN

Question 1

background 1903-6

Answer 1

Saratov governor to interior minister to priminsiter in 1906, dealt with peasant rebellions(hardline repressor in countryside and innovate radicle refrom= ag reforms)

Question 2

outdated methods of mir was

Answer 2

redistribution of land
three field syst
outdated tools
pop growth(land hunger+infertile) led to low productivity as output onlyy grew 6% py

Question 3

peasant poverty caused by and led to

Answer 3

burden of state policy high taxes, red payments, grain requisitions led to peasant disorder 1902-7 and involvement 1905 rev

Question 4

stolypin aims of agriculture policy

Answer 4

inc rural prosperity(wealthy) enhance happy and loyal, limit mir power, agriculture reforms leading to order maintained and inc ag output

Question 5

to reduce influence of mir and encourage private ownership

Answer 5

1903:mir responsability collecting taxes abolished
1906- peasnts can leave commune and peasant land bank est and can consolidate strips into 1 farm
1907-red payments abolished
1910-any mir hadn’t redistributed land since 1861 disolved
1911:terms for leaving commune easier

Question 6

to exploit more land 1906

Answer 6

state and crown land made available to buy, gov subsides used to enc resettlement in Siberia.

Question 7

exploring more land 1906 led to

Answer 7

25% peasnts left mir est independent ownership- only 14% of land
75% remain in mir

Question 8

khutor farms v otrub farms

Answer 8

seriate house from villages, under control of mir

Question 9

impact of stolypin reforms

Answer 9

25% est independent ownership(left mir) , consolidated strips (only 10%)90% still in strips
over 3millon peasnts settled down in new land Siberia (improving other ag)

Question 10

overall output inc after 1906

Answer 10

grain production expanding 2.1% py
helping develop larger farms inc use of machinery/fertalizers
investment in farm machinery rose 9%py(1891-1913)CARRIED OUT BY KULAKS

Question 11

however peanuts not necessarily more effiencent as

Answer 11

worked on land ineffiencently (long process), 90% still in strip+75% part of mir
the exhaustive farming methods decreased grain yield

Question 12

kualks buying land of social groups

Answer 12

poor peanuts(1908-16 1.1m sold land to Kuala did inc resentment due to lack of ownership and revolutionary settlement 1900)
nobles (purchased 2.7 acres via loans from peanuts land bank)

Question 13

ww1/revolotuon ened stolypin reforms prematruley

Answer 13

heated possible progress that may of occurred after ww1. after collapse of autocracy, 95% of stolypin separators which left mir returned.