GCSE MOCK- stolypin's policies

Question 1

Who was Peter Stolypin

Answer 1

Tsar’s new prime minister in 1906

Question 2

What 2 approaches did Stolypin implement and why

Answer 2

oppression
reform

-to wipe out opposition to Tsar and transform the economy especially in relation go agriculture

Question 3

What was the ‘carrot’ approach

Answer 3

• Stolypin attempted to win over the peasants with land

- allowed wealthier peasants (kulaks) to opt out of mir communes and buy land

Question 4

How the ‘carrot’ approach successful

Answer 4

-Kulaks prospered and in turn made larger more efficient farms, increasing production dramatically

Question 5

What did Stolypin introduce under oppression to ensure power in russia

Answer 5

• Stolypin came down hard on strikers/protestors/revolutionaries
• over 20,000 exiled
• 1,000 hanged
• became known as ‘Stolypin’s necktie’

Question 6

How was Stolypins approach of oppresuon effective

Answer 6

-it effectively killed off opposition to the regime in the countryside after 1914

Question 7

What did Stolypin introduce under reform to ensure power in russia

Answer 7

• wealthier peasants- kulaks- were allowed to opt out of the village commune and buy land
• a peasants land bank was created to loan kulaks money to help them buy land and invest in it
• Stolypin tried to increase russian industry by continuing to invest in the building of railways

Question 8

How was Stolypin’s expansion of industry policy ineffective

Answer 8

• Russia was still miles behind the modern industrial powers such as Britain and Germany
• Urban workers’ wages were still low
• cost of houses and food didn’t come down
• living and working conditions remained appalling
• quality of life for Russian people didn’t improve

Question 9

What were the successes of Stolypins refroms

Answer 9

1890-1913- grain production doubled

1890-1913- pig iron production increased and coal production more than tripled

number of strikes halved between 1908 & 1911

peasant disturbances were under control until after 1914

Question 9

What were the failures of Stolypins refroms

Answer 9

• 90% of land in the fertile west of Russia was still run by inefficient communes
• farm sizes remained somewhat small
• peasants still lived in awful conditions.