Stolypin's Land Reforms

• Stolypin wanted to produce more kulaks – he wanted to win their loyalty to tsardom and use them to improve agriculture and create an internal market for the products of industry
• He wanted peasants to become permanent owners of their land
• He intended that each peasants land should be held in one piece rather than scattered strips and that each peasant should be able to develop it as they wished without interference from the Mir
• His program of agricultural reform began in 1903, however it was not until 1905, after the unrest and violence and Stolypin’s promotion that major changes were undertaken
• September 1906

  More State and Crown land is made available for peasants to buy. Government subsidies to encourage migration and settlement in Siberia increased
• October 1906

  Peasants are granted equal rights in their local administration
• November 1906

  Peasants given right to leave the commune and collective ownership of land by a family is abolished. A peasant can withdraw land from the commune. New peasants' land bank established to help peasants fund their land ownership
• January 1907

  Redemption payments are officially abolished