Stolypin breaks up the Russian peasant communes
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
Yet when the minister for the interior, Stolypin, tried to reduce this discontent by breaking up the peasant communes after 1908, he simply provoked fresh unrest—whether from villages determined to keep their communal system or from newly independent farmers who swiftly went bankrupt. Thus, “Troops were needed on 13,507 occasions in January 1909, and 114,108 occasions that [whole] year.
chapter: The Position of the Powers, 1885–1914