Peter Stolypin In The 1905 Russian Administration

His successful suppression of the revolutionaries in Saratov resulted in him being made Minister of the Interior in April 1906. Three months later Nicholas II appointed Stolypin to replace Sergei Witte as his Prime Minister.

Russia in 1906 was plagued with revolutionary unrest and a wide discontent among the population. Leftist terrorist groups were waging terrorist campaigns against the autocracy, with an increasingly large wide support. Throughout Russia these groups were assassinating police officials and bureaucrats. One of the first decisions Stolypin had to make therefore was connected with the reason to his appointment as Russian Premier (Prime Minister) in the first place, to stamp out this posing revolutionary threat. He responded to these attacks by institutin

g a new court system, a system of military tribunals, which held quick trials of any accused rebels. Over 3,000 suspects were convicted and executed by these special courts between 1906-09. As a result of this action the hangman’s noose in Russia became known as “Stolypin’s necktie”.

His new policies were also backed up with his effort to put forth a more local, democratic decision making body, the Duma. However the first of the two Dumas of 1906 and 1907 were a complete farce however. They could not pass laws, appoint ministers, control finance and could be dissolved at an instant (and both were). Stolypin came up against much opposition by those who were in favour of extensive farming of the land. In the third Duma (1907-1912) Stolypin changed the way its members were elected to favour the more conservatives-the urban rich and the gentry, altering the 1907 election laws. This and the fourth Duma again proved to be a complete disaster.

In retrospect, Stolypin’s reforms, namely consolidation and enclosure combined with agronomic assistance, loans and cooperatives for purchase of machinery and livestock and the continual purchase of land through the peasant land bank would have benefited some peasants and led to

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