Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Stolypin, Dumas, + Fundamental Laws
- Stolypin (Chief Minister)
brought in higher land reforms
for higher production
- Aimed to encourage Kulaks to become more efficient –
buying up the land of poorer less efficient peasants
- Reforms produced a growing class of alienated poor peasants
- Execute 3,6000 in 1906
- use of the Black Hundreds and marshalls
- freed peasants from MIR
- cancelled redemption payments
- to create a new class loyal to the Tsar
- Became the Kulaks
- Fundamental Laws
- Constitution of
Russia
- right for the Tsar to govern by decree
- allowed to dismiss parliament
- protected and addressed religious
freedom, civil rights etc
- Limits October manifesto
- Dumas
- 1st Duma: April 1906
- Major reform, land etc
- Tsar dissolves after 72 days
- 2 demands passed out of 391
- dominated by Kadets,
liberals and SRs
- 2nd Duma: February 1907
- contained many reformers
- Displeased Tsar and Stolypin
- Dissolved after 3 months
- dominated by SRs
- 3rd Duma: November 1907
- Restricted franchise, only the wealthy could vote
- richest 30%
- Changed election system
- excluded reformers support
- dominated by Liberals
- challenged budget of Tsar
- 4th Duma: 1912-1914
- Conservative
- Government more inclined to listen
- not so radical
- Liberals + conservative