
10.42- The Stolypin Reforms
Revolutions
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Stlepin's Land Reforms - The Big Pieces
Stalepin wanted to end the policy of village autonomy and instead integrate everyone fully into the larger imperial system. He planned to form hyper local zemsta to allow his new population of equally dignified, independent farmers a place to air their grievances. This would turn the new farmers from sullen and resentful and oppressed peasants into supportive defenders of the political order. And in a way, stalipin is trying to do the same thing that the socialist sees fighting against are trying to do, eliminate legal and social and material inequality. But he's taking a completely different path, not by collectivizing, but by individualizing,. Rather than communal prosperity as a part of a collective
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