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November Decree 1906 |
Any head of a peasant family that owned allotment land by communal tenure, had the right to claim his share as private property. |
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October Decree 1906 |
A communal assembly in a village (the Mir) no longer had the right to impose forced labour on any person from that village who had gone against his public obligations. |
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What was the impact of the November Decree? |
1915 Year book up to May 1st- 2,736,172 applications for land ownership. 1,992,387 had been confirmed. |
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June 1910 - New land decree |
All communes where there had been no general distribution of land since 1861 were dissolved. Land shared out if majority vote decided on it. |
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Failure of Stolypin's reforms. |
Didn't address land owned by the monarch. Didn't do anything to modernise farming techniques in the countryside. |
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What did Stolypin's reforms actually mean for peasant families? |
The amount of land owned by peasants rose from 160 million desyatin to 170million desyatin. In reality this resulted in an 1/8th of a desyatin more per peasant family. |
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Did Stolypin's reforms win over the peasants? |
When land reforms ended in 1915, 50% of families still under a form of communal tenure. Still great deal of poverty. Peasants farmed for themselves. Stolypin did not win over the peasants. |