stolypin's land reforms

Question 1

what did Stolypin want to produce?

Answer 1

more kulaks-wanted to win their loyalty to tsardom and use them to improve agriculture and create an internal market for the products of industry

Question 2

stolypin wanted peasants to become?

Answer 2

permanent owners of their land

Question 3

stolypin intended that each peasants land should be held in one piece rather than ?

Answer 3

scattered strips and that each peasant should be able to develop it as they wished without interference from the mir

Question 4

his programme for agricultural reform began in?

Answer 4

1903- not until 1905 after the unrest + violence and stolypin’s promotion that major changes were undertaken
-demanded complete transformation of the communal pattern of Russian rural life

Question 5

what prompted the Russian gov to look more closely at agriculture?

Answer 5

the 1891-92 famine

Question 6

peter Stolypin who became prime minister in? believed?

Answer 6

1906 , believed that peasant prosperity was the key to political stability and thought his land reforms would transform russia into a stable and prosperous country

Question 7

his reforms carried out from 1906-1911 aimed to?

Answer 7

• allow peasants to leave the mir- to consolidate their strips of land into a single unit
  -reduce the power of the mir
  -redistribution of land of some nobles
  -help go-ahead peasants to buy land from less enterprising peasants and create larger, more efficient farms

Question 8

over the next few years there was a transfer of?

Answer 8

land from the poorer peasants to the more enterprising

Question 9

legislation in September 1906

Answer 9

more state and crown land is available for peasants to buy

Question 10

legislation in October 1906

Answer 10

peasants are granted equal rights in their local administration

Question 10

legislation in November 1906

Answer 10

peasants given right to leave the commune
collective ownership of land by a family is abolished
A new peasants’ land bank is established to help peasants fund their land ownership

Question 11

when are redemption payments finally abolished -as promised in 1905?

Answer 11

1 January 1907

Question 11

June 1910 legislation

Answer 11

all communes which had not redistributed land since 1861 are dissolved

Question 12

stolypin said to have claimed that he needed how many years of peace for his reforms to have an effect?

Answer 12

20 years

Question 13

the hereditary ownership of land by peasants increased from how much?

Answer 13

20% in 1905 to nearly 50% by 1915

Question 14

grain production rose annually how much from 1900 to 1914?

Answer 14

56 million tons in 1900 to 90 million by 1914

Question 15

by when did Russia become the world’s leading cereal exporter

Answer 15

by 1909

Question 16

stolypin’s encouragement to emigration took how many peasants away from the over-populated rural districts of the south and west to siberia?

Answer 16

3.5 million peasants

Question 17

limitations- changes in land tenure arrangements

Answer 17

took a long time to process and the measures were not entirely successful

Question 18

by 1913, only how many of the 5 million applications for the consolidation and hereditary of tenure of individual farms had been dealt with?

Answer 18

only 1.3 million

Question 19

by 1914 how much land had been transferred from communal to private ownership

Answer 19

only around 10%

Question 20

in 1914 how much percent of peasant landholdings were still traditional strips with reluctant peasants reluctant to give up traditional practice + security the mir provided for them?

Answer 20

90%

Question 21

landowners were often?

Answer 21

reluctant to give up land and difficulties of dividing common land= legal battles

Question 22

how much % of land remained in the hands of the nobility?

Answer 22

50%

Question 23

fewer than how much % recieved kulak status?

Answer 23

fewer than 1%