Assess the contribution of Stolypin to the Stability of the Tsarist Regime.

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Assess the contribution of Stolypin to the Stability of the Tsarist Regime

Antony Aleagha 12NR

Improvements after 1905

After 1905, The Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin allowed peasants to buy strips of land, which they could own and work on. However many peasants couldn't afford the land so Stolypin set up a bank to lend the peasants money which was expected back. The peasants couldn't pay back so Stolypin took their land and told them they could find work at the Trans Siberian Railway, many headed to places such as Omsk or Irkursk to find there was no jobs. They headed back to European Russia furious at the Tsar and Stolypin

He Dumas that were supposed to aid the country just bowed down to the Tsars wishes. When a third Dumas came to power in 1906, they revolted against the Tsar; he disbanded them and began working on a fourth Dumas. Stolypin decided that the fourth Dumas should have more nobles to stop the revolts, but even the nobles revolted.

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 Stolypin then enforced military rule by setting up militia courts whereby people could be executed on the spot. This became known as Stolypins' noose.

The freedom of speech noted in the October manifesto didn't exist. Political newspapers were banned and anything found to be against the Tsar was considered to be treason even political jokes.

 However some things did get better in Russia, between 1906 and 1914 there was an industrial boom in Russia thanks to the Dumas. They rose to become an economic superpower with the 4th largest steel, coal, oil and pig iron in the world. This led ...

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