Stolyopin's reforms

Question 1

Reasons for the reforms

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Answer 1

Allow the peasants to be more able to feed the growing Russian population
Reducing peasant discontent

Question 2

Main Reforms

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Answer 2

• Redemption payments abolished in 1907
• Peasants could own their own land separate from the mir
• Peasant Land Bank meant much state-owned and could be transferred to the peasants in a loan
• Peasants could leave the village without being restricted by the Mir
• Encouraged relocation to the Steppes area & Siberia

Question 3

Success

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Answer 3

Authority of the Mir reduced

Colonisation of Siberia and the Steppes was successful and wheat, eggs and livestock were produced

By 1917, 7 million peasant households, almost half of the total in Russia, held their land in private tenure

31% of land was peasant owned in 1877, 47% by 1917

Question 4

Failures

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Answer 4

In the central regions, strip farming still predominated, with only 10% of land being consolidated

Peasant poverty continued and tensions remained