Stolypin's Land Reforms

• 1903

  • The mir are no longer responsible for the taxation of peasants in the village.
• September 1906

  • More state and crown land is available for peasants to buy.
  • The government encourages and subsidises migration to fertile land in Siberia.
  • The Land Organisation Committee oversees changes.
• October 1906

  • Equal rights are given to peasants in local administration.
• November 1906

  • Peasants can leave the mir.
  • The land is now owned by the oldest male and not the whole family which stops sub-divisions.
  • Peasants can remove their land from collective mir farming by consolidating their strips into an individual farm.
  • A new Peasant Land Bank was created.
• January 1907

  • Although few were still paying them in full, redemption payments were abolished.
• June 1910

  • Any mir that had not redistributed land since 1861 was dissolved.
• Stolypin said he needed 20 years of peace to fully implement his reforms.

  • He was killed in 1911, only 5 years after reforms started.
  • World War I broke out 3 years later.
• The level of success Stolypin had is debated but a clear improvement in agricultural output and freeing up of labour was needed if industrialisation was to be a possibility.