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'''Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin''' (] Пётр Арка́дьевич Столы́пин) ({{OldStyleDate|April 14|1862|April 2}} &ndash; {{OldStyleDate|September 18|1911|September 5}}) served as ]'s Chairman of the Council of Ministers - the ] from ] to ]. He became known for his heavy-handed attempts to battle revolutionary groups and for instituting ]. Stolypin hoped, through his reforms, to stem peasant unrest by creating a class of smallholding landowners.<ref>http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0846802.html</ref> He is often cited as one of the last major statesmen of Imperial Russia with a clearly defined political programme and determination to undertake major reforms.<ref>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pvteach/imprus/papers/09b.html</ref> '''Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin''' ({{lang-rus|Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин|p=pʲɵtr ɐrˈkadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ stɐˈlɨpʲɪn}}; {{OldStyleDate|14 April|1862|2 April}} {{OldStyleDate|18 September|1911|5 September}}) was a Russian statesman who served as the third ] and the ] of the ] from 1906 until his assassination in 1911. Known as the greatest reformer of Russian society and economy, his reforms caused unprecedented growth of the Russian state, which was halted by his assassination.


Born in ], in the ], to a prominent Russian aristocratic family, Stolypin became involved in government from his early 20s. His successes in public service led to rapid promotions, culminating in his appointment as interior minister under prime minister ] in April 1906. In July, Goremykin resigned and was succeeded as prime minister by Stolypin.
==Family and background==
He was born in ], Saxony, on 14 April 1862. Stolypin was a high-born member of the ]n ], related on his father's side to the poet ]. His father was Arkady Dmitrievich Stolypin (1821-1899), a Russian landowner, descendant of a great noble family, a general in the Russian artillery and later Commandant of the Kremlin Palace. His mother was Natalia Mikhailovna Stolypina (''née'' ]a; 1827-1889), the daughter of a Russian foreign minister ]. He received a good education in ] and began his service in ] upon graduating in 1885 when he joined the Ministry of State Domains. Four years later he was appointed marshal of Kovno province.<ref>http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSstolypin.htm</ref>


As prime minister, Stolypin initiated major ]s, known as the ], that granted the right of private land ownership to the peasantry. His tenure was also marked by increased revolutionary unrest, to which he responded with a new system of ] that allowed for the arrest, speedy trial, and execution of accused offenders. After numerous previous assassination attempts, Stolypin was fatally shot in September 1911 by revolutionary ] in ].
In 1884, Stolypin married Olga Borisovna Neidhardt, the daughter of a prominent Muscovite family, by whom he had five daughters and a son.<ref>Blumberg, Arnold. ''Great Leaders, Great Tyrants?: Contemporary Views of World Rulers Who Made History'', p. 302. Greenwood Press, 1995, ISBN 0313287511.</ref>


Stolypin was a monarchist and hoped to strengthen the throne by modernizing the rural Russian economy. Modernity and efficiency, rather than democracy, were his goals. He argued that the land question could only be resolved and revolution averted when the ] was abolished and a stable landowning class of peasants, the ]s, would have a stake in the ''status quo''. His successes and failures have been the subject of heated controversy among scholars, who agree he was one of the last major statesmen of Imperial Russia with cogent and forceful public reform policies.{{sfn|Ascher|2001|p={{page?|date=September 2024}}}}
==Governor and Interior Minister==
In 1902 Stolypin was appointed the youngest ever governor first in ], then in ], where he became known for harsh suppression of peasants' unrests in ] and gained a reputation as the only governor who was able to keep a firm hold on his province. Stolypin was the first governor to use effective police methods against those who might be suspected of causing trouble. It is said that he had a police record on every adult male in his province.<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/peter_stolypin.htm</ref> His successes led to him first being appointed interior minister under ].


==Early life and career==
==Prime Minister==
A few months later, Nicholas appointed Stolypin to replace Goremykin as Prime Minister. Russia in ] was plagued by ]ary unrest and wide discontent amongst the population. Leftist organisations were waging campaigns against the autocracy, and had wide support; throughout Russia, ] officials and bureaucrats were being assassinated. To respond to these attacks Stolypin introduced a new court system that allow for quick arrests and trials of any accused offenders. Over 3,000 suspects were convicted and executed by these special courts between 1906-09.<ref>http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSstolypin.htm</ref> The gallows hence acquired the nickname 'Stolypin's necktie'.


Stolypin was born at ] in the ], on 14 April 1862, and was baptized on 24 May in the ] in that city.<ref>{{Cite web |title=WebCite query result |url=http://www.serednikovo.com/history/stolypin_p_a/stolypin_p_a.html |website=www.webcitation.org |access-date=2016-01-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112225701/http://www.serednikovo.com/history/stolypin_p_a/stolypin_p_a.html |archive-date=12 January 2009}}</ref> His father, Arkady Dmitrievich Stolypin (1821–99), was a Russian envoy at the time.
He dissolved the ] on {{OldStyleDate|July 22|1906|July 9}}, after the reluctance of some of its more radical members to co-operate with the government and calls for land reform.<ref>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pvteach/imprus/papers/09b.html</ref> To help quell dissent, Stolypin also hoped to remove some of the causes of grievance amongst the peasantry. Thus, he introduced important land reforms. Stolypin also tried to improve the lives of urban laborers and worked towards increasing the power of local governments.


Stolypin's family was prominent in the ], his forebears having served the tsars since the 16th century, and as a reward for their service had accumulated huge estates in several provinces. His father was a general in the Russian artillery, the governor of ] and commandant of the ] Palace guard.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} He was married twice. His second wife, Natalia Mikhailovna Stolypina (''née'' ]a; 1827–89), was the daughter of Prince ], the Commanding general of the Russian infantry during the ] and later the ] of ].{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}
In June of 1907, he was elected as Prime Minister. He aimed to create a moderately wealthy class of peasants, who would be supporters of societal order. (See article "]").<ref>http://russia.rin.ru/guides_e/6952.html</ref>


Pyotr grew up on the family estate ''Serednikovo'' ({{langx|ru|Середниково}}) in ], once inhabited by ], near ]. In 1879 the family moved to ]. Stolypin and his brother Aleksandr studied at the Oryol Boys College where he was described by his teacher, B. Fedorova, as 'standing out among his peers for his rationalism and character.'<ref>{{Cite book|title = 'I believe in Russia': a Biography of Petr Stolypin|last = Fedorovo|first = B.G.|publisher = Limbus Press|year = 2002}}</ref>
Stolypin changed the nature of the ] to attempt to make it more willing to pass legislation proposed by the government{{Fact|date=March 2007}}. After dissolving the Second Duma in June ], he changed the weight of votes more in favour of the nobility and wealthy, reducing the value of lower class votes{{Fact|date=March 2007}}. This affected the elections to the Third Duma, which returned much more conservative members, more willing to co-operate with the government.<ref>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pvteach/imprus/papers/09b.html</ref>
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In 1881 Stolypin studied agriculture at ] where one of his teachers was ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = Vospominaniya o moem otse P.A. Stolypina|last = Bok|first = M.P.|publisher = New York: Chekhov publishers|year = 1953}}</ref> He entered government service upon graduating in 1885, writing his thesis on tobacco growing in the south of Russia. It is unclear if he joined the ] or Internal Affairs.


In 1884, Stolypin married Olga Borisovna von ] whose family was of a similar standing to Stolypin's.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.serednikovo.com/history/stolypin_p_a/stolypin_p_a.html |title=Stolypin, Pyotr Aleksandrovich |access-date=2016-01-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112225701/http://www.serednikovo.com/history/stolypin_p_a/stolypin_p_a.html |archive-date=12 January 2009}}</ref> They married whilst Stolypin was still a student, an uncommon occurrence at the time. The marriage began in tragic circumstances: Olga had been engaged to Stolypin's brother, Mikhail, who died in a duel. The marriage was a happy one, devoid of scandal. The couple had five daughters and one son.<ref>Blumberg, Arnold. ''Great Leaders, Great Tyrants?: Contemporary Views of World Rulers Who Made History'', p. 302. Greenwood Press, 1995, {{ISBN|0-313-28751-1}}.</ref>
In the spring of 1911, Stolypin proposed a bill, which was not passed promoting his resignation. He proposed spreading the system of ] to the southwestern provinces of Russia. It was originally slated to pass with a narrow majority, but Stolypin's partisan foes had it defeated. Afterwards he resigned as Prime Minister of the ].


===Lithuania===
Lenin was afraid Stolypin might succeed in helping Russia avoid a violent revolution. Many German political leaders feared that a successful economic transformation of Russia would undermine ]'s dominating position in Europe within a generation. Some historians believe that German leaders in 1914 chose to provoke a war with Tsarist Russia, in order to defeat it before it would grow too strong {{Fact|date=March 2007}}.
Stolypin spent much of his life and career in ], then administratively known as ] of the Russian Empire.


] From 1869, Stolypin spent his childhood years in ] manor (now ] of ]), built by his father, a place that remained his favorite residence for the rest of life.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kolos.lt/index.php?Itemid=28&id=202&option=com_content&task=view|title=kolos.lt – Reliģija un reliģiskie uzskati|access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref> In 1876, the Stolypin family moved to ] (now Vilnius), where he attended grammar school.
On the other hand, the Tsar did not give Stolypin unreserved backing. In fact, it was believed that his position at ] was already seriously undermined by the time he was assassinated in 1911 {{Fact|date=March 2007}}. Stolypin's reforms did not survive the turmoil of ], the ] nor the ].

Stolypin served as marshal of the ] (now ], Lithuania) between 1889 and 1902. This public service gave him an inside view of local needs and allowed him to develop administrative skills.<ref>{{Cite book|title = A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution.|last = Figes |first = Orlando |publisher = The Bodley Head |year = 2017|isbn = 978-1-847-92451-3 |pages = 223}}</ref> His thinking was influenced by the single-family farmstead system of the Northwestern Krai, and he later sought to introduce the land reform based on private ownership throughout the Russian Empire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kultura.lrytas.lt/-12614956691260089535-vilniuje-%C4%AFam%C5%BEintas-rus%C5%B3-reformatoriaus-p-stolypino-atminimas.htm|title=Vilniuje įamžintas rusų reformatoriaus P.Stolypino atminimas|publisher=]|access-date=22 January 2018}}</ref>

Stolypin's service in Kovno was deemed a success by the Russian government. He was promoted seven times, culminating in his promotion to the rank of ] in 1901. Four of his daughters were also born during this period; his daughter Maria recalled: "this was the most calm period his life".<ref name=":0" />

In May 1902 Stolypin was appointed governor in ], where he was the youngest person ever appointed to this position.

==Governor of Saratov==
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In February 1903, he became governor of ]. Stolypin is known for suppressing strikers and peasant unrest in January 1905. According to ], its peasants were among the poorest and most rebellious in the whole of the country.<ref name="O. Figes 1996 p. 223">O. Figes (1996) ''A People's Tragedy. The Russian Revolution 1891–1924'', p. 223. {{ISBN?}}</ref> It seems he cooperated with the ]s, the local government. He gained a reputation as the only governor able to keep a firm hold on his province during the ], a period of widespread revolt. The roots of unrest lay partly in the ], which had given land to the ], instead of individually to the newly freed ].<ref> © 2000–2013 Pearson Education, publishing as Fact Monster. 20 May. 2014</ref> Stolypin was the first governor to use effective police methods. Some sources suggest that he had a police record on every adult male in his province.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/peter_stolypin.htm|title=Peter Stolypin – History Learning Site|access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref>

==Interior minister and prime minister==
{{see also|Pyotr Stolypin's Cabinet}}
Stolypin's successes as provincial governor led to his appointment as interior minister under ] in April 1906. He advocated for a new track of the ] along the Russian side of the ] river.

The absent-minded Goremykin had been described by his predecessor ] as a bureaucratic nonentity. After two months, ] suggested Goremykin step down and conducted secret negotiations with ], who proposed a cabinet of only ]s, which Trepov believed would fall afoul of Tsar ]. Trepov opposed Stolypin, who promoted a ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofa008591mbp|title=Recollections of a Foreign Minister|last=Charles Louis Seeger|date=1921|publisher=Doubleday Page & Co.|access-date=12 March 2017|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> ] and ] tried to convince the Tsar to accept liberals in the new government.

When Goremykin resigned on {{OldStyleDate|21 July|1906|8 July}}, Nicholas II appointed Stolypin as Prime Minister, while remaining as Minister of the Interior. He dissolved the ], despite the reluctance of some of its more radical members, to clear the field for cooperation with the new government. In response, 120 Kadet and 80 ] and ] deputies went to ] (then under the autonomous ], beyond the reach of Russian police) and responded with the ] (or the "Vyborg Appeal"), written by Pavel Milyukov. Stolypin allowed the signers to return to the capital unmolested.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

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On 25 August 1906, three assassins from the ], wearing military uniforms, bombed a public reception Stolypin was holding at his ] on ]. Stolypin was only slightly injured by flying splinters, but 28 others were killed. Stolypin's 15-year-old daughter lost both legs and later succumbed to her injuries at the hospital, and his 3-year-old son Arkady broke a leg, as the two stood on a balcony.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/08/26/101714707.pdf|title=Bomb kills 28 – Hurts Stolypin|date=26 August 1906|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Stolypin moved into the ]. In October 1906, at the request of the tsar, ] paid a visit to the wounded child.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljZhTg79ZocC&q=Rasputin+Stolypin+august+1906&pg=PA41|title=Rasputin: The Untold Story|first=Joseph T.|last=Fuhrmann|date= 2012|publisher=Wiley|isbn=9781118226933}}</ref> On 9 November an imperial decree made far-reaching changes in land tenure law, disrupting in one sweep the communal and the household (family) property systems.<ref>Lazar Volin (1970) ''A century of Russian agriculture. From Alexander II to Khrushchev'', pp. 103–104. {{ISBN?}}</ref>

Stolypin changed the rules of the First Duma to attempt to make it more amenable to government proposals.<ref>Orlando Figes, ''A People's Tragedy. The Russian Revolution 1891–1924'', p. 225 {{ISBN?}}</ref><ref name=Oxley>{{cite book |last= Oxley |first= Peter|title= Russia, 1855–1991: from tsars to commissars |publisher= ] |year= 2001 |isbn= 0-19-913418-9}}</ref> On 8 June 1907, Stolypin ], and 15 Kadets who had associated with terrorists were arrested; he also changed the weight of votes in favor of the nobility and wealthy, reducing the value of lower-class votes.<ref name=Oxley/> The leading Kadets were ineligible. This affected the elections to the Third Duma, which returned much more conservative members eager to cooperate with the government.<ref>Lazar Volin (1970) A century of Russian agriculture. From Alexander II to Khrushchev, p. 101. Harvard University Press</ref> This changed Georgy Lvov from a moderate liberal into a radical.<ref>O. Figes (1996) ''A People's Tragedy. The Russian Revolution 1891–1924,'' p. 220</ref>

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As governor in Saratov, Stolypin had become convinced that the ] had to be abolished; communal ] had to go. The chief obstacle appeared to be the ], so its dissolution and the individualization of peasant land ownership became the leading objectives of his agrarian policy.<ref>Lazar Volin (1970) A century of Russian agriculture. From Alexander II to Khrushchev, p. 102.</ref> He introduced Denmark-style land reforms to allay peasant grievances and soothe dissent. Stolypin proposed his own landlord-sided reform in opposition to the previous democratic proposals which led to the dissolution of the first two Russian parliaments.<ref>Lazar Volin (1970) ''A century of Russian agriculture. From Alexander II to Khrushchev'', p. 106</ref> ] aimed to stem peasant unrest by creating a class of market-oriented ] who would support the social order.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0846802.html|title=Stolypin, Piotr Arkadevich|access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref> He was assisted by ], who in 1908 became Minister of Agriculture. In June 1908 Stolypin lived in a wing of the ]<ref></ref> where the ] convened.<ref>{{cite book|author=Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|author-link=Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|title=August 1914: A Novel: The Red Wheel I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MT3RAwAAQBAJ&pg=PP21|year=2014|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-71212-9|page=601}}</ref>

Supported by the ], ]s proliferated from 1908, and Russian industry was booming.<ref>Lazar Volin (1970) ''A century of Russian agriculture. From Alexander II to Khrushchev'', pp. 112–114.</ref> Stolypin tried to improve the lives of urban laborers and worked towards increasing the power of ], but the zemstvos adopted an attitude hostile to the government.

] was particularly indignant, writing to Stolypin: "Stop your horrible activity! Enough of looking up to Europe, it is high time Russia knew its own mind!" Tolstoy had argued similarly to ], who was in favor of private ownership of land and wrote: "If you want to transform humanity for the better, to turn almost beasts into humans, give them land and you will reach your goal."<ref name="Angelfire2">{{cite web |title=ROYAL RUSSIA NEWS. THE ROMANOV DYNASTY & THEIR LEGACY, MONARCHY, HISTORY OF IMPERIAL & HOLY RUSSIA |url=http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/blog/index.blog?topic_id=1069120 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716072043/http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/blog/index.blog?topic_id=1069120 |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 July 2011 |access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref><!-- ] -->

In his nationalities policy, Stolypin attempted to improve the acrimonious relations between the Russian Orthodox majority and the Jewish population. In 1910, Stolypin's brother-in-law ] became ], replacing Count ]. Around 1910 the press started a campaign against Rasputin, accusing him of improper sexual relations. Stolypin wanted to ban Rasputin from the capital and threatened to prosecute him as a sectarian.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} Rasputin decamped to Jerusalem, returning to St. Petersburg only after Stolypin's death.

On 14 June 1910, Stolypin's land reforms came before the Duma as a formal law,<ref>Lazar Volin (1970) ''A century of Russian agriculture. From Alexander II to Khrushchev'', p. 103.</ref> including a proposal to spread the ] system to the southwestern provinces of ]. Though the law seemed likely to pass, Stolypin's political opponents narrowly defeated it. In March 1911 Stolypin resigned from the fractious and chaotic Duma after the failure of his land-reform bill.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://souloftheeast.org/2011/09/07/solzhenitsyn-stolypins-murder/|title=Solzhenitsyn: Stolypin's Murder|first=Mark|last=Hackard|date=7 September 2011|access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref> Tsar Nicholas II decided to look for a successor to Stolypin and considered ], ] and ].{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} ] has summarized his career:

{{quote|Pyotr Stolypin's reforms produced astounding results within a few years. Between 1906 and 1915, thanks to the efforts of Stolypin's farmers, the productivity of crops nationwide grew by 14 percent, in Siberia by 25 percent. In 1912, Russia's grain exports exceeded by 30 percent those of Argentina, the United States and Canada combined.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://old.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/tmt/334012.html|title=Pioneering Land Reform - News|access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref>}}


==Assassination== ==Assassination==
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In September 1911, Stolypin travelled to Kiev, despite prior police warnings that there was an assassination plot. He travelled without bodyguards and even refused to wear his bullet-proof vest.


] where Stolypin was assassinated]]
On {{OldStyleDate|September 14|1911|September 1}}, while he was attending a performance at the ] in the presence of the Tsar and his family, Stolypin was shot twice by ], who was both a leftist radical and agent of ], once in the arm and once in the chest. After being shot Stolypin was reported to have casually stood up from his chair, carefully removing his gloves and unbuttoning his jacket, and unveiled a blood-soaked waistcoast. He sunk into his chair and shouted 'I am happy to die for the Tsar' before motioning to the Tsar in his royal box to withdraw to safety. Tsar Nicholas remained in his position and in one last theatrical gesture Stolypin blessed him with a sign of the cross. Stolypin died four days later. The following morning a resentful Tsar kneeled at his hospital bedside and repeated the words 'Forgive me'. Bogrov was hanged 10 days after the assassination, and the judicial investigation was halted by order of ]. This led to suggestions that the assassination was planned not by leftists, but by conservative monarchists who were afraid of Stolypin's reforms and his influence on the Tsar, though this has never been proved.
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Stolypin traveled to Kiev despite police warnings of an assassination plot, as there had already been 10 attempts to kill him. On {{OldStyleDate|14 September|1911|1 September}}, Stolypin attended a performance of ]'s ] at the ] in the presence of the tsar and his eldest daughters, grand duchesses ] and ]. The theater was guarded by 90 men inside the building.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/stolypin-murder-1911-kiev.html|title=Murder of Prime Minister Stolypin in Kiev 1911 – Blog & Alexander Palace Time Machine|first=Pallasart Web|last=Design|access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref> According to ], after the second act "Stolypin was standing in front of the ramp separating the parterre from the orchestra, his back to the stage. On his right were Baron ] and Gen. ]." His personal bodyguard had stepped out to smoke. Stolypin was shot twice, once in the arm and once in the chest, by ], a Jewish leftist revolutionary. Bogrov ran to one of the entrances and was caught. Stolypin rose from his chair, removed his gloves and unbuttoned his jacket, exposing a blood-soaked waistcoat. He gave a gesture to tell the tsar to go back and made the sign of the cross. He remained conscious, but his condition deteriorated. He died four days later.<ref>Quotes from General Alexander Spiridovitch, "Murder of Prime Minister Stolypin in Kiev 1911" (1929) </ref>

Bogrov was hanged 10 days after the assassination. The judicial investigation was halted by order of the tsar, giving rise to suggestions that the assassination was planned not by leftists, but by conservative monarchists opposed to Stolypin's reforms and his influence on the tsar. However, this has never been proven. On his request, Stolypin was buried in the city where he was murdered.<ref name="O. Figes 1996 p. 223"/>


==Legacy== ==Legacy==
{{also|1905 Russian Revolution|October Manifesto|State Duma (Russian Empire)}}
Opinions about Stolypin's work were divided. In the unruly atmosphere after the ] he had to suppress violent revolt and anarchy. His agrarian reform held out much promise, however. Stolypin's phrase that it was a "wager on the strong" has often been maliciously misrepresented. Stolypin and his collaborators (most prominently his Minister of Agriculture ] and the Danish-born agronomist ]) tried to give as many peasants as possible a chance to raise themselves out of poverty by promoting consolidation of scattered plots, introducing banking facilities for peasants and stimulating emigration from the overcrowded western areas to ]s in ] and Southern ].
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Since 1905 Russia had been plagued by widespread political dissatisfaction and revolutionary unrest. With broad support, leftist organizations waged a violent campaign against the autocracy; throughout Russia, many police officials and bureaucrats were assassinated. "Stolypin inspected rebellious areas unarmed and without bodyguards. During one of these trips, somebody dropped a bomb under his feet. There were casualties, but Stolypin survived."<ref name="Angelfire">{{cite web|url=http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/blog/index.blog?topic_id=1069120|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716072043/http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/blog/index.blog?topic_id=1069120|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 July 2011|title=ROYAL RUSSIA NEWS. THE ROMANOV DYNASTY & THEIR LEGACY, MONARCHY, HISTORY OF IMPERIAL & HOLY RUSSIA|access-date=12 March 2017}}</ref> To respond to these attacks, Stolypin introduced a new court system of ], that allowed for the arrest and speedy trial of accused offenders. Over 3,000 (possibly 5,500) suspects were convicted and executed by these special courts between 1906 and 1909.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} In a Duma session on 17 November 1907, ] party member {{Ill|Fedor Rodichev|ru|Родичев, Фёдор Измайлович}} referred to the gallows as "Stolypin's efficient black Monday necktie". Outraged, Stolypin challenged Rodichev to a duel, but Rodichev apologized to avert it. Nevertheless, the expression became popular.{{sfn|Ascher|2001|p={{page?|date=September 2024}}}} The capacious railroad cars used for Siberian resettlement were named ]s.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}
==Miscellaneous==
After Stolypin's elder brother was killed in a ], Stolypin challenged his brother’s duellist. As a result, Stolypin was wounded in the right arm, which became almost paralysed after the incident.


There remains doubt whether, even without the disruption of Stolypin's murder and the ], his agricultural policy could have succeeded. The deep conservatism from the mass of peasants made them slow to respond. In 1914 the ] was still widespread, with only around 10% of the land having been consolidated into farms.<ref name="Lynch">Lynch, Michael ''From Autocracy to Communism: Russia 1894–1941'' p. 42 {{ISBN|978-0-340-96590-0}}</ref> Most peasants were unwilling to leave the security of the commune for the uncertainty of individual farming. Furthermore, by 1913, the government's own Ministry of Agriculture had itself begun to lose confidence in the policy.<ref name="Lynch" /> Nevertheless, Krivoshein became the most powerful figure in the Imperial government.
Stolypin's death was allegedly prophesied by ], who is reported to have shouted, "Death is after him! Death is driving behind him!" as he ran after the Imperial couple in the crowd outside the opera house.

Lenin in the Paris newspaper said, "Social-Democrat" on 31 October 1911, wrote "Stolypin and the Revolution", calling for the "mortification of the uber-lyncher",<ref>[https://leninism.su/bo
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″Stolypin tried to pour new wine into old bottles, to reshape the old autocracy into a bourgeois monarchy; and the failure of Stolypin's policy is the failure of tsarism on this last, the last conceivable, road for tsarism."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1911/oct/18.htm|title=Lenin: Stolypin and the Revolution|website=www.marxists.org}}</ref>

In "]", a 2008 television poll to select "the greatest Russian", Stolypin placed second, behind ] and followed by ].<ref> BBC</ref> He is seen by his admirers as the greatest statesman Russia ever had, the one who could have saved the country from revolution and the civil war.<ref>O. Figes (1996) A People's Tragedy. The Russian Revolution 1891–1924, p. 221.</ref>

On 27 December 2012, a monument to Pyotr Stolypin was unveiled in Moscow to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth. The monument is situated near the ], seat of the Russian Cabinet.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Monument to P.A. Stolypin {{!}} Sculptor Andrey Korobtsov|url=https://korobtsov.com/en/works/monuments/monument-to-p.a.-stolypin|access-date=2021-12-09|website=korobtsov.com|date=9 November 2017}}</ref> At the foot of the pedestal, a bronze plaque quotes Stolypin: ''"We must all unite in defense of Russia, coordinate our efforts, our duties and our rights in order to maintain one of Russia's historic supreme rights – to be strong."''

==Screen portrayals==

Stolypin is portrayed by ] in the opening scenes of the 1971 British film '']'', fictitiously taking part in the Romanov dynasty tercentenary celebrations of 1913 before being assassinated later in the film, two years after his actual assassination.

Stolypin is portrayed by ] in episode 9 of the 1974 British miniseries '']'', ''Dress Rehearsal.''

==See also==
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==References== ==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |title=P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia |first=Abraham |last=Ascher |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=2001 |isbn=0-8047-3977-3 }}
* Conroy, M.S. (1976), ''Peter Arkadʹevich Stolypin: Practical Politics in Late Tsarist Russia'', Westview Press, (Boulder), 1976. {{ISBN|0-8915-8143-X}}
* Fuhrmann, Joseph T. (2013). Rasputin, the untold story (illustrated ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p.&nbsp;314. {{ISBN|978-1-118-17276-6}}.
* {{cite journal |last=Kotsonis |first=Yanni |title=The problem of the individual in the Stolypin reforms |journal=Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History |volume=12 |issue=1 |year=2011 |pages=25–52 |doi=10.1353/kri.2011.a411659 |s2cid=153249001 }}
* Lieven, Dominic, ed. ''The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689–1917'' (2015)
* {{cite journal |last=Macey |first=David |title=Reflections on peasant adaptation in rural Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century: the Stolypin agrarian reforms |journal=Journal of Peasant Studies |volume=31 |issue=3–4 |year=2004 |pages=400–426 |doi=10.1080/0306615042000262634 |s2cid=154275204 }}
* {{cite book |title=United Government and Foreign Policy in Russia, 1900–1914 |first=David MacLaren |last=McDonald |location=Cambridge, Mass. |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1992 |isbn=978-0674922396 }}
* Pallot, Judith. ''Land reform in Russia, 1906–1917: peasant responses to Stolypin's project of rural transformation'' (1999). {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705045411/https://www.questia.com/read/13733923/land-reform-in-russia-1906-1917-peasant-responses |date=5 July 2019 }}
* Pares, Bernard. ''A History of Russia'' (1926) pp. 495–506.
* Pares, Bernard. '' The Fall of the Russian Monarchy'' (1939) pp. 94–143.
* {{cite journal |last=Shelokhaev |first=Valentin V. |title=The Stolypin Variant of Russian Modernization |journal=Russian Social Science Review |volume=57 |issue=5 |year=2016 |pages=350–377 |doi=10.1080/10611428.2016.1229962 |s2cid=141548699 }}


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Russian politician (1862–1911)

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Arkadyevich and the family name is Stolypin.
Pyotr Stolypin
Пётр Столыпин
3rd Prime Minister of Russia
In office
21 July 1906 – 18 September 1911
MonarchNicholas II
Preceded byIvan Goremykin
Succeeded byVladimir Kokovtsov
Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia
In office
26 April 1906 – 18 September 1911
Prime MinisterIvan Goremykin
Himself
Preceded byPyotr Durnovo
Succeeded byAlexander Makarov
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BornPyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin
(1862-04-14)14 April 1862
Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Confederation
Died18 September 1911(1911-09-18) (aged 49)
Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Southwestern Krai, Russian Empire
Manner of deathAssassination
Resting placeKyiv Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine
NationalityRussian
SpouseOlga Borisovna von Neidhardt
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Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (Russian: Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин, IPA: [pʲɵtr ɐrˈkadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ stɐˈlɨpʲɪn]; 14 April [O.S. 2 April] 1862 – 18 September [O.S. 5 September] 1911) was a Russian statesman who served as the third prime minister and the interior minister of the Russian Empire from 1906 until his assassination in 1911. Known as the greatest reformer of Russian society and economy, his reforms caused unprecedented growth of the Russian state, which was halted by his assassination.

Born in Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony, to a prominent Russian aristocratic family, Stolypin became involved in government from his early 20s. His successes in public service led to rapid promotions, culminating in his appointment as interior minister under prime minister Ivan Goremykin in April 1906. In July, Goremykin resigned and was succeeded as prime minister by Stolypin.

As prime minister, Stolypin initiated major agrarian reforms, known as the Stolypin reform, that granted the right of private land ownership to the peasantry. His tenure was also marked by increased revolutionary unrest, to which he responded with a new system of martial law that allowed for the arrest, speedy trial, and execution of accused offenders. After numerous previous assassination attempts, Stolypin was fatally shot in September 1911 by revolutionary Dmitrii Bogrov in Kiev.

Stolypin was a monarchist and hoped to strengthen the throne by modernizing the rural Russian economy. Modernity and efficiency, rather than democracy, were his goals. He argued that the land question could only be resolved and revolution averted when the peasant commune was abolished and a stable landowning class of peasants, the kulaks, would have a stake in the status quo. His successes and failures have been the subject of heated controversy among scholars, who agree he was one of the last major statesmen of Imperial Russia with cogent and forceful public reform policies.

Early life and career

Stolypin was born at Dresden in the Kingdom of Saxony, on 14 April 1862, and was baptized on 24 May in the Russian Orthodox Church in that city. His father, Arkady Dmitrievich Stolypin (1821–99), was a Russian envoy at the time.

Stolypin's family was prominent in the Russian aristocracy, his forebears having served the tsars since the 16th century, and as a reward for their service had accumulated huge estates in several provinces. His father was a general in the Russian artillery, the governor of Eastern Rumelia and commandant of the Kremlin Palace guard. He was married twice. His second wife, Natalia Mikhailovna Stolypina (née Gorchakova; 1827–89), was the daughter of Prince Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, the Commanding general of the Russian infantry during the Crimean War and later the viceroy of Congress Poland.

Pyotr grew up on the family estate Serednikovo (Russian: Середниково) in Solnechnogorsky District, once inhabited by Mikhail Lermontov, near Moscow Governorate. In 1879 the family moved to Oryol. Stolypin and his brother Aleksandr studied at the Oryol Boys College where he was described by his teacher, B. Fedorova, as 'standing out among his peers for his rationalism and character.'

Serednikovo
Photo of 14-year-old Stolypin

In 1881 Stolypin studied agriculture at St. Petersburg University where one of his teachers was Dmitri Mendeleev. He entered government service upon graduating in 1885, writing his thesis on tobacco growing in the south of Russia. It is unclear if he joined the Ministry of State Property or Internal Affairs.

In 1884, Stolypin married Olga Borisovna von Neidhart whose family was of a similar standing to Stolypin's. They married whilst Stolypin was still a student, an uncommon occurrence at the time. The marriage began in tragic circumstances: Olga had been engaged to Stolypin's brother, Mikhail, who died in a duel. The marriage was a happy one, devoid of scandal. The couple had five daughters and one son.

Lithuania

Stolypin spent much of his life and career in Lithuania, then administratively known as Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire.

Stolypin's favourite manor house in Kalnaberžė

From 1869, Stolypin spent his childhood years in Kalnaberžė manor (now Kėdainiai district of Lithuania), built by his father, a place that remained his favorite residence for the rest of life. In 1876, the Stolypin family moved to Vilna (now Vilnius), where he attended grammar school.

Stolypin served as marshal of the Kovno Governorate (now Kaunas, Lithuania) between 1889 and 1902. This public service gave him an inside view of local needs and allowed him to develop administrative skills. His thinking was influenced by the single-family farmstead system of the Northwestern Krai, and he later sought to introduce the land reform based on private ownership throughout the Russian Empire.

Stolypin's service in Kovno was deemed a success by the Russian government. He was promoted seven times, culminating in his promotion to the rank of state councilor in 1901. Four of his daughters were also born during this period; his daughter Maria recalled: "this was the most calm period his life".

In May 1902 Stolypin was appointed governor in Grodno Governorate, where he was the youngest person ever appointed to this position.

Governor of Saratov

Stolypin by Ilya Repin

In February 1903, he became governor of Saratov. Stolypin is known for suppressing strikers and peasant unrest in January 1905. According to Orlando Figes, its peasants were among the poorest and most rebellious in the whole of the country. It seems he cooperated with the zemstvos, the local government. He gained a reputation as the only governor able to keep a firm hold on his province during the Revolution of 1905, a period of widespread revolt. The roots of unrest lay partly in the Emancipation Reform of 1861, which had given land to the Obshchina, instead of individually to the newly freed serfs. Stolypin was the first governor to use effective police methods. Some sources suggest that he had a police record on every adult male in his province.

Interior minister and prime minister

See also: Pyotr Stolypin's Cabinet

Stolypin's successes as provincial governor led to his appointment as interior minister under Ivan Goremykin in April 1906. He advocated for a new track of the Trans-Siberian Railway along the Russian side of the Amur river.

The absent-minded Goremykin had been described by his predecessor Sergei Witte as a bureaucratic nonentity. After two months, Dmitri Feodorovich Trepov suggested Goremykin step down and conducted secret negotiations with Pavel Milyukov, who proposed a cabinet of only Kadets, which Trepov believed would fall afoul of Tsar Nicholas II. Trepov opposed Stolypin, who promoted a coalition cabinet. Georgy Lvov and Alexander Guchkov tried to convince the Tsar to accept liberals in the new government.

When Goremykin resigned on 21 July [O.S. 8 July] 1906, Nicholas II appointed Stolypin as Prime Minister, while remaining as Minister of the Interior. He dissolved the Duma, despite the reluctance of some of its more radical members, to clear the field for cooperation with the new government. In response, 120 Kadet and 80 Trudovik and Social Democrat deputies went to Vyborg (then under the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, beyond the reach of Russian police) and responded with the Vyborg Manifesto (or the "Vyborg Appeal"), written by Pavel Milyukov. Stolypin allowed the signers to return to the capital unmolested.

Stolypin's wooden villa after the attempted assassination. One third was blown to pieces.

On 25 August 1906, three assassins from the Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists, wearing military uniforms, bombed a public reception Stolypin was holding at his dacha on Aptekarsky Island. Stolypin was only slightly injured by flying splinters, but 28 others were killed. Stolypin's 15-year-old daughter lost both legs and later succumbed to her injuries at the hospital, and his 3-year-old son Arkady broke a leg, as the two stood on a balcony. Stolypin moved into the Winter Palace. In October 1906, at the request of the tsar, Grigori Rasputin paid a visit to the wounded child. On 9 November an imperial decree made far-reaching changes in land tenure law, disrupting in one sweep the communal and the household (family) property systems.

Stolypin changed the rules of the First Duma to attempt to make it more amenable to government proposals. On 8 June 1907, Stolypin dissolved the Second Duma, and 15 Kadets who had associated with terrorists were arrested; he also changed the weight of votes in favor of the nobility and wealthy, reducing the value of lower-class votes. The leading Kadets were ineligible. This affected the elections to the Third Duma, which returned much more conservative members eager to cooperate with the government. This changed Georgy Lvov from a moderate liberal into a radical.

Distribution of newly formed farms in Grodno Governorate (1909)

As governor in Saratov, Stolypin had become convinced that the open field system had to be abolished; communal land tenure had to go. The chief obstacle appeared to be the Mir (commune), so its dissolution and the individualization of peasant land ownership became the leading objectives of his agrarian policy. He introduced Denmark-style land reforms to allay peasant grievances and soothe dissent. Stolypin proposed his own landlord-sided reform in opposition to the previous democratic proposals which led to the dissolution of the first two Russian parliaments. Stolypin's reforms aimed to stem peasant unrest by creating a class of market-oriented smallholders who would support the social order. He was assisted by Alexander Krivoshein, who in 1908 became Minister of Agriculture. In June 1908 Stolypin lived in a wing of the Yelagin Palace where the Council of Ministers convened.

Supported by the Peasants' Land Bank, credit cooperatives proliferated from 1908, and Russian industry was booming. Stolypin tried to improve the lives of urban laborers and worked towards increasing the power of local governments, but the zemstvos adopted an attitude hostile to the government.

Leo Tolstoy was particularly indignant, writing to Stolypin: "Stop your horrible activity! Enough of looking up to Europe, it is high time Russia knew its own mind!" Tolstoy had argued similarly to Dostoyevsky, who was in favor of private ownership of land and wrote: "If you want to transform humanity for the better, to turn almost beasts into humans, give them land and you will reach your goal."

In his nationalities policy, Stolypin attempted to improve the acrimonious relations between the Russian Orthodox majority and the Jewish population. In 1910, Stolypin's brother-in-law Sergey Sazonov became Minister of Foreign Affairs, replacing Count Alexander Izvolsky. Around 1910 the press started a campaign against Rasputin, accusing him of improper sexual relations. Stolypin wanted to ban Rasputin from the capital and threatened to prosecute him as a sectarian. Rasputin decamped to Jerusalem, returning to St. Petersburg only after Stolypin's death.

On 14 June 1910, Stolypin's land reforms came before the Duma as a formal law, including a proposal to spread the zemstvo system to the southwestern provinces of Asian Russia. Though the law seemed likely to pass, Stolypin's political opponents narrowly defeated it. In March 1911 Stolypin resigned from the fractious and chaotic Duma after the failure of his land-reform bill. Tsar Nicholas II decided to look for a successor to Stolypin and considered Sergei Witte, Vladimir Kokovtsov and Alexei Khvostov. The Moscow Times has summarized his career:

Pyotr Stolypin's reforms produced astounding results within a few years. Between 1906 and 1915, thanks to the efforts of Stolypin's farmers, the productivity of crops nationwide grew by 14 percent, in Siberia by 25 percent. In 1912, Russia's grain exports exceeded by 30 percent those of Argentina, the United States and Canada combined.

Assassination

Kiev Opera House where Stolypin was assassinated
Stolypin's burial.

Stolypin traveled to Kiev despite police warnings of an assassination plot, as there had already been 10 attempts to kill him. On 14 September [O.S. 1 September] 1911, Stolypin attended a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera in the presence of the tsar and his eldest daughters, grand duchesses Olga and Tatiana. The theater was guarded by 90 men inside the building. According to Alexander Spiridovich, after the second act "Stolypin was standing in front of the ramp separating the parterre from the orchestra, his back to the stage. On his right were Baron Freedericksz and Gen. Sukhomlinov." His personal bodyguard had stepped out to smoke. Stolypin was shot twice, once in the arm and once in the chest, by Dmitry Bogrov, a Jewish leftist revolutionary. Bogrov ran to one of the entrances and was caught. Stolypin rose from his chair, removed his gloves and unbuttoned his jacket, exposing a blood-soaked waistcoat. He gave a gesture to tell the tsar to go back and made the sign of the cross. He remained conscious, but his condition deteriorated. He died four days later.

Bogrov was hanged 10 days after the assassination. The judicial investigation was halted by order of the tsar, giving rise to suggestions that the assassination was planned not by leftists, but by conservative monarchists opposed to Stolypin's reforms and his influence on the tsar. However, this has never been proven. On his request, Stolypin was buried in the city where he was murdered.

Legacy

See also: 1905 Russian Revolution, October Manifesto, and State Duma (Russian Empire)
A statue of Pyotr Stolypin near the Kyiv City Duma building, removed after the February Revolution.
Stolypin's grave in the Pechersk Monastery (Lavra) in Kyiv.

Since 1905 Russia had been plagued by widespread political dissatisfaction and revolutionary unrest. With broad support, leftist organizations waged a violent campaign against the autocracy; throughout Russia, many police officials and bureaucrats were assassinated. "Stolypin inspected rebellious areas unarmed and without bodyguards. During one of these trips, somebody dropped a bomb under his feet. There were casualties, but Stolypin survived." To respond to these attacks, Stolypin introduced a new court system of martial law, that allowed for the arrest and speedy trial of accused offenders. Over 3,000 (possibly 5,500) suspects were convicted and executed by these special courts between 1906 and 1909. In a Duma session on 17 November 1907, Kadet party member Fedor Rodichev [ru] referred to the gallows as "Stolypin's efficient black Monday necktie". Outraged, Stolypin challenged Rodichev to a duel, but Rodichev apologized to avert it. Nevertheless, the expression became popular. The capacious railroad cars used for Siberian resettlement were named Stolypin cars.

There remains doubt whether, even without the disruption of Stolypin's murder and the First World War, his agricultural policy could have succeeded. The deep conservatism from the mass of peasants made them slow to respond. In 1914 the strip system was still widespread, with only around 10% of the land having been consolidated into farms. Most peasants were unwilling to leave the security of the commune for the uncertainty of individual farming. Furthermore, by 1913, the government's own Ministry of Agriculture had itself begun to lose confidence in the policy. Nevertheless, Krivoshein became the most powerful figure in the Imperial government.

Lenin in the Paris newspaper said, "Social-Democrat" on 31 October 1911, wrote "Stolypin and the Revolution", calling for the "mortification of the uber-lyncher", saying: ″Stolypin tried to pour new wine into old bottles, to reshape the old autocracy into a bourgeois monarchy; and the failure of Stolypin's policy is the failure of tsarism on this last, the last conceivable, road for tsarism."

In "Name of Russia", a 2008 television poll to select "the greatest Russian", Stolypin placed second, behind Alexander Nevsky and followed by Joseph Stalin. He is seen by his admirers as the greatest statesman Russia ever had, the one who could have saved the country from revolution and the civil war.

On 27 December 2012, a monument to Pyotr Stolypin was unveiled in Moscow to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth. The monument is situated near the Russian White House, seat of the Russian Cabinet. At the foot of the pedestal, a bronze plaque quotes Stolypin: "We must all unite in defense of Russia, coordinate our efforts, our duties and our rights in order to maintain one of Russia's historic supreme rights – to be strong."

Screen portrayals

Stolypin is portrayed by Eric Porter in the opening scenes of the 1971 British film Nicholas and Alexandra, fictitiously taking part in the Romanov dynasty tercentenary celebrations of 1913 before being assassinated later in the film, two years after his actual assassination.

Stolypin is portrayed by Frank Middlemass in episode 9 of the 1974 British miniseries Fall of Eagles, Dress Rehearsal.

See also

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Further reading

  • Ascher, Abraham (2001). P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3977-3.
  • Conroy, M.S. (1976), Peter Arkadʹevich Stolypin: Practical Politics in Late Tsarist Russia, Westview Press, (Boulder), 1976. ISBN 0-8915-8143-X
  • Fuhrmann, Joseph T. (2013). Rasputin, the untold story (illustrated ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 314. ISBN 978-1-118-17276-6.
  • Kotsonis, Yanni (2011). "The problem of the individual in the Stolypin reforms". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 12 (1): 25–52. doi:10.1353/kri.2011.a411659. S2CID 153249001.
  • Lieven, Dominic, ed. The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689–1917 (2015)
  • Macey, David (2004). "Reflections on peasant adaptation in rural Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century: the Stolypin agrarian reforms". Journal of Peasant Studies. 31 (3–4): 400–426. doi:10.1080/0306615042000262634. S2CID 154275204.
  • McDonald, David MacLaren (1992). United Government and Foreign Policy in Russia, 1900–1914. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674922396.
  • Pallot, Judith. Land reform in Russia, 1906–1917: peasant responses to Stolypin's project of rural transformation (1999). online Archived 5 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  • Pares, Bernard. A History of Russia (1926) pp. 495–506. Online
  • Pares, Bernard. The Fall of the Russian Monarchy (1939) pp. 94–143. Online
  • Shelokhaev, Valentin V. (2016). "The Stolypin Variant of Russian Modernization". Russian Social Science Review. 57 (5): 350–377. doi:10.1080/10611428.2016.1229962. S2CID 141548699.

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