Stolypin's Agricultural Reforms

Question 1

What were Stolypin’s 3 aims?

Answer 1

• Encourage private ownership
• Improve efficiency
• Create stable and loyal peasantry

Question 2

What farms did Stolypin create?

Answer 2

Khutor and Otrub farms

Question 3

What were Khutor farms?

Answer 3

• Strips consolidated into independent farms around a new house outside the mir = buy land from other peasants
• most effective farm

Question 4

What were Otrub farms?

Answer 4

Strips consolidated into one or two plots with the house still in the village

Question 5

What change did Stolypin’s reforms create?

Answer 5

• Creation of different types of peasants = Kulaks
• Change in farming methods = economic change + more investment
• Promoted individual enterprise

Question 6

What continuity did Stolypin’s reforms maintain?

Answer 6

• 90% of peasants continued to strip farm
• Majority too poor to benefit
• Short-term change