The Stolypin Variant of Russian Modernization

Abstract

Petr Stolypin developed an effective reform program for Russia, well tailored to the country's past experience and need to transform from an agrarian to an industrial society. He should not be blamed for others' failure to implement his program after his assassination.

Notes

English translation © 2014 M.E. Sharpe, Inc., [now Taylor & Francis Group, LLC] from the Russian text © 2012 the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Editorial Board of Rossiiskaia istoriia, and the author. “Stolypinskii tip modernizatsii Rossii,” Rossiiskaia istoriia, 2012, no. 2, pp. 18–36. Translated by Liv Bliss.Valentin Valentinovich Shelokhaev, Doctor of History, is chief archivist at the Russian State Archive of Sociopolitical History (RGASPI). Translation reprinted from Russian Studies in History, vol. 53, no. 2. doi: 10.2753/RSH1061-1983530202

^1. See P.A. Stolypin. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’ (Moscow, 2002); A.M. Anfimov, P.A. Stolypin i rossiiskoe krest'ianstvo (Moscow, 2002); G.P. Sidorovnin, P.A. Stolypin. Zhizn’ za Otechestvo. Zhizneopisanie (1862–1911) (Moscow, 2002); S. Kara-Murza, Stolypin—otets russkoi revoliutsii (Moscow, 2002); B.G. Fedorov, Petr Arkad'evich Stolypin (Moscow, 2002); M.A. Davydov, Ocherki i agrarnoi istorii Rossii v kontse XIX–nachale XX v. (Po materialam transportnoi statistiki i statistiki zemleustroistva) (Moscow, 2003); and Rossiia sel'skaia XIX–nachalo XX veka (Moscow, 2004).

^2. See P.A. Stolypin: Programma reform. Dokumenty i materialy (Moscow, 2002–3), vols. 1–2; Taina ubiistva Stolypina (Moscow, 2003); and P.A. Stolypin, Perepiska (Moscow, 2004).

^3. P.A. Stolypin, Nam nuzhna Velikaia Rossiia…: Polnoe sobranie rechei v Gosudarstvennoi dume i Gosudarstvennom sovete, 1906–1911 (Moscow, 1991); Stolypinskaia reforma i zemleustroitel’ A.A. Kofod. Dokumenty. Perepiska. Memuary (Moscow, 2003).

^4. See Stolypin, Nam nuzhna Velikaia Rossiia, pp. 338, 362, 363.

^5. Ibid., pp. 50–51.

^6. Ibid., p. 51.

^7. V.S. Diakin, “Stolypin i dvorianstvo,” Problemy krest'ianskogo zemlevladeniia i vnutrenniaia politika Rossii (Leningrad, 1972), pp. 233–34.

^8.Stolypin: Programma reform, vol. 1, p. 29.

^9. Ibid., p. 364.

^10. Ibid., p. 41.

^11. Ibid., p. 30.

^12. Ibid., p. 29.

^13. Ibid., p. 103.

^14. Ibid., pp. 51, 53.

^15. Ibid., p. 340.

^16. Ibid., p. 75.

^17. Ibid., p. 107.

^18. Ibid., pp. 102–3.

^19. Ibid., pp. 94–95, 165.

^20. Ibid., pp. 65, 158.

^21. Ibid., p. 130.

^22. Ibid., pp. 63, 101.

^23. Ibid., pp. 174–75.

^24. Ibid., pp. 104, 156.

^25. Ibid., pp. 148, 304.

^26. Ibid., p. 350.

^27. Ibid., p. 63.

^28. Ibid., pp. 34, 50, 62–63, 86, 240, 264.

^29. Ibid., p. 239.

^30. Ibid., p. 106.

^31. Ibid., p. 151.

^32. Ibid., p. 102–7.

^33. Stolypin, Nam nuzhna Velikaia Rossiia, p. 251.

^34.Stolypin: Programma reform, vol. 1, pp. 78–99.

^35. Ibid., pp. 107, 139.

^36. Stolypin, Nam nuzhna Velikaia Rossiia, p. 53.

^37. Ibid., p. 105.

^38. Ibid., pp. 247, 255.

^39.Stolypin: Programma reform, vol. 1, pp. 154–217.

^* Scouts—khodoki, who went ahead to identify land suitable for migrants to settle.—Trans.

^40. Ibid., pp. 252–308, 325–52.

^41. Ibid., p. 295.

^42. Stolypin, Nam nuzhna Velikaia Rossiia, pp. 179–80.

^43. Ibid., p. 149.