Stolypin, Pyotr (Arkadyevich)
- Stolypin, Pyotr (Arkadyevich)
-
died Sept. 18, 1911, Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire
Russian politician.
Appointed governor of the provinces of Grodno (1902) and Saratov (1903), he improved the welfare of the peasants while also subduing their rebellions. He gained the favour of Tsar
Nicholas II and was appointed minister of the interior and prime minister in 1906. He initiated agrarian reforms that gave the peasants greater freedom to choose representatives to the
zemstvo councils and to acquire land, which he believed would create a loyal and conservative class of farmers. His repressive measures against rebels and terrorists earned him the enmity of liberals. He dissolved the
Duma when it opposed his reforms, but he later won support from moderates. He was assassinated by a revolutionary in 1911.
* * *
Universalium.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich — ▪ Russian statesman born April 14 [April 2, old style], 1862, Dresden, Saxony died Sept. 18 [Sept. 5, O.S.], 1911, Kiev conservative statesman who, after the Russian Revolution of 1905, initiated far reaching agrarian reforms to improve the… … Universalium
Pyotr — (as used in expressions) Chaadayev Pyotr Yakovlevich Pyotr Alekseyevich Stolypin Pyotr Arkadyevich Struve Pyotr Berngardovich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Wrangel Pyotr Nikolayevich Baron Pyotr Fyodorovich * * * … Universalium
Pyotr Stolypin — Infobox Prime Minister | name=Pyotr Stolypin nationality=Russian order =3rd Prime Minister of Imperial Russia monarch = Nicholas II term start=July 21, 1906 term end=September 18, 1911 predecessor=Ivan Goremykin successor=Vladimir Kokovtsov birth … Wikipedia
Stolypin land reform — ▪ Russian agricultural history (1906–17), measures undertaken by the Russian government to allow peasants to own land individually. Its aim was to encourage industrious peasants to acquire their own land, and ultimately to create a class of … Universalium
Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… … Universalium
Nicholas II — 1. (Gerard) died 1061, pope 1058 61. 2. 1868 1918, czar of Russia 1894 1917: executed 1918. * * * I Russian Nikolay Aleksandrovich born May 18, 1868, Tsarskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg, Russia died July 16/17, 1918, Yekaterinburg Tsar of Russia… … Universalium
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Cap.: Moscow. Also called Russia, Soviet … Universalium
Coup of June 1907 — Nicholas II s opening speech before the First Duma and State Council (1906) The Coup of June 1907 is the name commonly given to the dissolution of the Second State Duma, the arrest of some its members and a fundamental change in the Russian… … Wikipedia
land reform — any program, esp. when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless. [1840 50, Amer.] * * * Deliberate change in the way agricultural land is held or owned, the methods of its… … Universalium
Oryol — For other uses, see Oryol (disambiguation). Oryol (English) Орёл (Russian) … Wikipedia
