Stolypin

Question 1

When was Stolypin prime minister?

Answer 1

1906-1911

Question 2

What did Stolypin aim to do?

Answer 2

Prevent another revolution.
Modernise agriculture.
Derevolutionise the peasants.
Preserve autocracy

Question 3

How many government officials were assassinated in 1907?

Answer 3

1200

Question 4

How many death sentences did Stolypin hand out between October 1906 and March 1907?

Answer 4

1144

Question 5

What were these harsh punishments known as?

Answer 5

The Stolypin necktie

Question 6

In 1908 what did the political assassinations decrease to?

Answer 6

365

Question 7

Between what years did Stolypin close 600 trade unions?

Answer 7

Between 1906 and 1911

Question 8

During 1908 to 1909, how many people were convicted of political crimes?

Answer 8

16,500

Question 9

How many were sentenced to death?

Answer 9

3600

Question 10

What did the law of the 9th November 1906 do?

Answer 10

It freed peasants from control of the commune. And announced that their mortgages would be cancelled.

Question 11

What was the Peasants Land Bank instructed to do?

Answer 11

Give loans to peasants who wanted to leave the commune

Question 12

What did Stolypin encourage peasants to do?

Answer 12

Move to undeveloped agricultural areas with the incentive of cheap land financed by government loans.

Question 13

In 1914 only 16% of land was?

Answer 13

Consolidated into farms

Question 14

In 1905 how many peasants had ownership over their own land?

Answer 14

20%

Question 15

Ownership of land rose to how much by 1915?

Answer 15

50%

Question 16

What did agricultural production rise to from 1906 to 1913?

Answer 16

1906 = 45.9 million tonnes
1913 = 61.7 million tonnes

Question 17

When was there a peasant strike?

Answer 17

1914 due to a lack of improvement in living conditions

Question 18

What was the number of strikes and strikers in 1911?

Answer 18

105,110 workers involved in 466 strikes

Question 19

Whereas after Stolypin how did the number of workers in strikes change?

Answer 19

In 1912, there was 725,491 workers involved in 2,032 strikes

Question 20

Following Stolypins assassination in 1911, the number of strikes classed a political increased by?

Answer 20

1911 = 24
1914 = 2401

Question 21

Who stated that Stolypin was “the last real chance for the tsarist system to reform itself from within”?

Answer 21

Peter Waldron

Question 22

Who stated that “Stolypin combined the hangman and the agrarian reformer in one person”?

Answer 22

Trotsky

Question 23

Who said that “Stolypin wagered everything on the creation of a prosperous peasantry”?

Answer 23

Figes

Question 24

How many workers went on strike at Lena Goldfields in March 1912?

Answer 24

6,000

Question 25

What did Figes argue about the Lena Goldfields massacre?

Answer 25

It "shattered the illusion that Russia was moving peacefully towards a constitutional order".

Question 26

How many miners were killed on April 4th 1912?

Answer 26

At least 270 were killed and hundreds were wounded.