Stolypin's Land Reforms - Impact

• If Stolypin had been given 20 years of peace, he may have achieved his aims but progress was limited by the time he died.

  • His reforms continued through to the start of the war but progress was patchy.
• For there to be success, industrial growth was needed to give employment of those displaced.

  • Migration to Siberia helped with this.
• What appeared to remain unchanged was the attitudes of most peasants who had limited ambition who did not seek greater knowledge or to make plans for the future but simply wanted to subsist,