Stolypin

• • used land redistribution to build and strengthen the class of more able, educated and 'best' peasants
  • he hoped they would act as role models for other peasants to follow as well as act as a force against the mir
• • unused or poorly utilised land was made available to the peasant land bank
  • peasants could then buy the land form the bank on favourable terms
• peasants who were still farming strips due to the strength of the mir were given the right to consolidate they land into smallholdings
• led to an expansion in the members joining the wealthier class of peasants who in theory would be loyal to the tsar but they weren't fully satisfied as they believed the best land was still inaccessible to peasants
• by 1914 about 2 million peasants had left the village communities as they were short of rural labour