He try to achieve most of this by introducing the Land Law of 1906 which was passed by decree and wasn’t approved by the Duma until 1910, but it was a twenty year plan and after his assassination in 1911 it was not got given the same priority. Nevertheless this was not the main reason way this failed in order for this to work he needed to break the power of the Mir which it didn’t, in fact by 1917, 95% had return to it. This was because many peasants were against leaving the commune and those who weren’t were afraid to go against the commune. Others reasons why the Land Law was that poor peasants brought land, but sold it on rather than improving it which Stolypin hope for. He also failed to improve the efficiency of the agriculture, as productivity only increased by 1% and in central Russia the population grew bigger than productivity.
Stolypin’s political gold’s where to hold back revolution with a combination of reform and repression, to control the Duma and stop the growth of radical opposition and to have a cooperative approach between the government and the educated elite would enforce the states authority and reduce social tensions.
Stolypin did achieve some of his political gold’s revolution had been suppressed, but the Tsar still remained unpopular. He achieved this by cracking down on revolutionist with searches, arrest and executions. On the 1st June 1907 the second Duma was dissolved because of a stalemate between Stolypin and the now 200 strong socialists who had ended their boycott. On the same day however, a new Electoral Law was introduce. This new Electoral was the same as the last one, but with a few changes to it. The changes were in how many seats there were to each region, social groups and ethnic minorities. When it first met in November 1907 it had resulted in a much more conservative and compliant assembly, however the new arrangement was heavily in favour of the landowners. This had marked the end for evolutionary era, but the constitutional government that the Tsar needed to evolve to survive didn’t. Also the middle classes who were a potential source of support for the Tsar became more alienated.
Finally his social gold’s where to increase religious toleration, by reducing discrimination against Jews and to reduce illiteracy by have primary education.
Stolypin did not really achieve much on his social gold’s he was only able to enact fractions of his legislation. Also had many of his proposals drastically change by the Duma, causing tensions between the two. These suggestions of social reform where met with some strong opposition form the state council and he only had half hearted support from the Tsar that would of done harm to his cause.
So, in conclusion Stolypin’s reforms did not achieve the goal’s he had set out for them, in fact they achieve very little. His assassination in 1911 did not help his reforms after he had passed, his reforms which where suppose to take twenty years to work where ended or not given as much effort. The Tsar did not help much either to help achieve he reform gold’s as Nicholas gave him the lack of support that he need. Also it doesn’t help much if your Tsar is more interested in the weather than the plight of his people. But Russia itself was the main reason why they failed; as he had so many problems to deal with before he could get started. Agriculture reform failed because of the backward thinking of the peasants and them being afraid of change, the land hunger, the population growing quicker than production, increase number of revolutionist causes a threat to the Tsar and himself, and finally the problems of the working class such as their conditions etc.
