1. Stolypin and the Land Reform

2. Stolypin appointed in 1905 ( president of Council of Ministers)
Dedicated himself to Tsardom, a conservative approach
” Suppression first and then only then reform”
Industrialization could not solve all the Russian problems: the market increase in the late 19th c. had ended with the food shortage and rural over-population
Bad harvests between had wittnessed severe famines

3. Stolypin´s program
De-revolutionising the peasantry; between 1906 and 1907 S, introduced measures which allowed the peasants to leave the MIR
Strip system to be replaced by separate block of land ( existed in Western Europe)
Land Banks were established
Large-scale resettlement in Siberia
% of the land had been consolidated into farms
S. assassinated in 1911, the war in 1914