Tsarist between 1906 and 1917 - Peter Stolypin Flashcards
Who was Stolypin?
Strong supporter of autocracy and an opponent of revolution and disorder who believed reform was essential to solve Russia’s issues.
What was ‘Stolypin’s necktie’?
The hangman’s noose that dealt with thousands of peasants.
What did Stolypin do?
He crushed peasant uprisings, its nearly 60,000 either executed or sent into exile.
Never attempted to build his own political base and was throughly loyal to the Tsar.
What did Stolypin focus on?
Agriculture.
What were Stolypin’s two main objectives?
To feed the rapidly growing population, to avoid famine and revolt.
To create a strong peasant population who would support the Tsar.
What was Stolypin’s main aim?
“De-revolutionising” the peasantry.
How did Stolypin plan to “de-revolutionise” the peasantry?
High price of land led to heavy mortgage repayments.
Peasants felt insecure, fearing their land would be seized.
As a result of this worry, they farmed inefficiently.
Feared their land would be seized by mortgage holders as they’d fallen behind in payments.
Government announced outstanding payments would be cancelled.
What was Stolypin’s idea of the ‘wager on the strong’?
Inefficient strip system was to be replaced by fenced fields.
A land bank was established to provide funds for the independent peasant to buy his own land.
Stolypin aimed to create a new layer of prosperous peasants whose new wealth would turn them into supporters of the tsarist system.
How did Stolypin plan to relocate the peasants?
Large-scale voluntary resettlement of the peasants into the empire’s remoter ideas, e.g. Siberia.
Aimed to turn them into productive food growing areas.
