Stolypin

• Stolypin - Repression

  • Adopts policy of repression:

  1. Martial Law declared;
  2. Military courts set up, results in executions;
  3. Targeted terrorists;
  4. In 1906 - 1008 arrested, tried, and executed
  5. 21,000 exiled to Siberia
• Stolypin - Countryside Reforms

  1. Introduces land reforms to increase production
  2. Did increased food production; record production in 1913
  3. Encouraged landowning farmers (KULAKS) to become more efficient by buying up land from poorer farmers
  4. Created alienated class of poor peasants; went to cities to find work, or stayed as unhappy labourers
  5. Removed high mortgage rates
• Stolypin - City Reforms

  1. Between 1906-14 - industrial boom helped by borrowing money from foreign countries:
  2. Coal, iron, oil grew rapidly;
  3. New factories built
  4. Business people more richer
  5. Workers' wealth remained unchanged;
  6. Some areas saw working-class improvements;