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Since Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, there has been a reappraisal of the role of Stolypin in Russian agrarian history. In contrast to the hitherto exclusively negative evaluations of the reforms, one now reads in the press that Stolypin had just the right solution for the agrarian problem — not only the pre-revolutionary, but today’s as well. The words of one deputy to the Congress of Peoples’ Deputies are interesting in this respect: ‘I think that the farmers we are so afraid of will be a buttress of our perestroika in the countryside. Stolypin was no fool. He understood who could be the foundation, so to speak, of the state’.1
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Pallot, J. (1992). Did the Stolypin Land Reform Destroy the Peasant Commune?. In: McKean, R.B. (eds) New Perspectives in Modern Russian History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22210-0_8
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