Were Pyotr Stolypin's reforms good

Answer 1

Stolypin's reforms had mixed results. He called his plan "carrot and stick" - to reward and punish. He reversed the previous "mir" system - of collective property - and allowed the destitute peasants to combine their land and buy the land of poorer peasants. He introduced the concept of private property, attempting to develop a new, prosperous class of conservative farmers who would be loyal to the Tsar. This was the carrot part. The stick was the harsh punishment for radicals - the result of the revolutionary parties popular in the countryside, particularly the Socialist Revolutionaries. They were often exiled and sometimes hanged. Stolypin had so many people hanged, nooses became known as "Stolypin's neckties."

As a result of this, production did increase, but only the money only benefited the middle class, or was paid back to France (borrowed for industrialization). The peasant's condition did not improve, and instead of creating a new loyal, capitalist class he was left with a very poor, alienated group of farmers.