1. Stolypin and Reform To learn who Stolypin was
To learn his importance to the Russian Revolution

2. The Dumas
Tsar Nicholas II had made it clear in the Fundamental Laws that the Duma was not intended to have any real power
The first Duma tried to assert its right to power. Tsar Nicholas II surrounded its meeting place with troops and broke up the meeting. It lasted only 75 days
The second Duma was even less popular with the Tsar. It contained Socialist Revolutionaries and Social Democrats, who aimed to overthrow the Tsar. It lasted three months.

3. The Dumas (cont) The third Duma did much better than its predecessors.
However, Tsar Nicholas II had changed the voting laws to ensure revolutionaries could not be elected to it.
The third Duma was filled by politicians who behaved themselves and did what the Tsar wanted

4. Why was Tsar Nicholas II unwilling to have a Duma that did not do what he wanted?
Did Tsar Nicholas II want a Duma?
What problems might be caused by a Duma that wanted a revolution?

5. Peter Stolypin
In 1906, Tsar Nicholas II appointed a tough new Prime-Minister to make sure there were no new outbreaks of revolution
His name was Peter Stolypin

6. Stolypin’s Government
Stolypin believed in strict government
He targeted terrorists and in were arrested. They were tried in special courts and then executed.
Many were hanged and this gave the gallows a new nickname – ‘Stolypin’s Necktie’
In the same year, people were exiled to Siberia

7. Stolypin’s Government (cont)
Stolypin understood that he could not control Russia by brute force alone
Stolypin helped the peasants to become owners of their own land, hoping this would prevent them from rebelling again
Conditions in Russia improved. Industries grew, wages began to improve and there were improvements in harvests.

8. How did Stolypin’s make Revolution less likely?
How did peasants feel?
How did the proletariat feel?
How did the bourgeousie feel?

9. Stolypin’s Assassination
In 1911, one of Stolypin’s police agents who had been investigating terrorist groups, turned out to be a terrorist himself
He shot Stolypin dead