People sometimes forget about their national tasks; but such peoples perish, they turn into land, into fertilizer, on which other, stronger nations grow and grow stronger.
Russian politician (1862–1911)
The last major reformer of Imperial Russia, shot dead in a Kiev theatre in 1911 while trying to save the throne by breaking up peasant communes and creating a class of private landowners who'd defend the old order.
Born in Dresden in 1862 to a Russian aristocratic family, Stolypin rose quickly through government service, becoming interior minister in April 1906 and prime minister three months later when his predecessor resigned. He launched sweeping agrarian reforms — the Stolypin reform — that granted peasants the right to own land privately, aiming to dismantle the commune system and create a stable kulak class with a stake in the monarchy's survival. His years in office were scarred by revolutionary violence, which he met with a harsh new martial law system: swift arrests, trials, and executions. He n…
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People sometimes forget about their national tasks; but such peoples perish, they turn into land, into fertilizer, on which other, stronger nations grow and grow stronger.
You, gentlemen, are in need of great upheavals; we are in need of Great Russia.
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