Tsarist Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, who engineered the “Coup” of June 1907 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Nikolas Sluchevsky, Project Syndicate, July 31, 2012
In 1906, Pyotr Stolypin, my great-grandfather, was appointed Prime Minister of Imperial Russia. Among his first undertakings was a series of agricultural reforms aimed at creating a new class of smallholding farmers. Five years later, the population had grown by 18.5 million, far exceeding the previous growth rate; Russia had become the largest exporter of grain to Europe; and roughly three million private farmers had joined the new rural middle class.
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