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LAST REFORMS OF TSARISM (PYOTR STOLYPIN (REFORM (1922 all Russian children…

- - - - Given land from commune, can buy more
    - - Interest in regime and status quo
      - Incentive for progress- types of crop, machines, hire other peasants
    - - Attempts to break away resulted in tension and animosity in the village - seen as betrayal
      - Figures indecisive as to success rate
      - Never truly know - war in 1914 ends any chance of rural stability
  - - - Hated by left & nobility
      - Repression did help to weaken opposition
      - Set up military courts - 3 days after crime, death sentence within 24 hrs - more death sentences than ever
    - - Lieven - helped image, made him seem courageous
- - - - Members fled to Finland and wrote a manifesto asking people to stop paying taxes until next Duma was formed - unsuccessful. Will of people?
      - Historians have criticized for being too much too soon - in memoirs, leader responds that if they compromised would have lost support
  - - - Saw it as a favor that could be revoked - Moss
    - - Also can't discuss everything e.g. foreign policy
      - Can propose laws
    - - Voting system changed
        
        Gentry votes worth much more than urban workers by 3rd
      - Gentry vote worth more than workers and peasants, peasants more than urban workers - trusted
      - No votes for landless peasants, women or soldiers
- - - - Revolution not a threat anymore
      - Duma initially to have power to create and reject laws - Moss
  - - - Also urban terrorism
      - Pogroms e.g. Odessa
- - - - could have been constitutional monarchy given time - Moss
      - Got people into politics
    - - Boycotted by far left
  - - - Unpopular on both sides
      - Background - difficult to implement any kind of change, if not inevitable then likely
      - Reform always unpopular
      - Poor organisation - lack of officials
    - - Not given enough time - never know
      - Not doomed because of flaws in reform - context
      - Some successes
  - - - but Stolypin
      - Unpopular - forced to resign