Pyotr Stolypin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian politician
Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1862
Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Date of Death: 18-Sep-1911
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Pyotr Stolypin
- Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (Russian: ???? ????´?????? ?????´???, IPA: [p??tr ?'rkad?j?v??t? st?'l?p??n]; 14 April [O.S.
- 2 April] 1862 – 18 September [O.S.
- 5 September] 1911) was a Russian politician.
- He was the third Prime Minister of Russia, and Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire from 1906 to his assassination in 1911. Born in Dresden, Germany to a prominent Russian aristocratic family, Stolypin became involved in government from his early 20s.
- His successes in public service led to rapid promotions, culminating in his appointment as Interior Minister under Ivan Goremykin in April 1906.
- In July, Stolypin succeeded as Prime Minister following Goremykin's resignation. As Prime Minister, Stolypin initiated major agrarian reforms that granted the right of private land ownership to the peasantry.
- His tenure was also marked by increased revolutionary unrest, to which he responded with a new system of martial law that allowed for the arrest, speedy trial and execution of accused offenders.
- Subject to numerous assassination attempts, Stolypin was fatally shot in September 1911 by revolutionary Dmitry Bogrov in Kiev. Stolypin was a monarchist and hoped to strengthen the throne by modernizing the backward Russian rural economy.
- Modernity and efficiency were his goals, not democracy.
- He argued that the land question could only be resolved, and revolution averted, when the peasants communal system was abolished and a stable landowning class of peasants created – the kulaks – who would have a stake in the status quo.
- His successes and failures have been subject of heated controversies among scholars.
- They agree he was one of the last major statesmen of Imperial Russia with clearly defined public policies and with the determination to undertake major reforms.
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