Stolypin's Agricultural Reforms Flashcards
1
Q
What were Stolypin’s 3 aims?
A
- Encourage private ownership
- Improve efficiency
- Create stable and loyal peasantry
2
Q
What farms did Stolypin create?
A
Khutor and Otrub farms
3
Q
What were Khutor farms?
A
- Strips consolidated into independent farms around a new house outside the mir = buy land from other peasants
- most effective farm
4
Q
What were Otrub farms?
A
Strips consolidated into one or two plots with the house still in the village
5
Q
What change did Stolypin’s reforms create?
A
- Creation of different types of peasants = Kulaks
- Change in farming methods = economic change + more investment
- Promoted individual enterprise
6
Q
What continuity did Stolypin’s reforms maintain?
A
- 90% of peasants continued to strip farm
- Majority too poor to benefit
- Short-term change
