biography
| name: |
Stolypin, Peter Arkadyevich
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pronunciation:
[stolipin]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1911)
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| biography:
| Russian statesman and prime minister (1906–11), born in Dresden, E Germany. He studied at St Petersburg, and after service in the ministry of the interior (from 1884), became governor of Saratov province (1903–6), where he ruthlessly put down local peasant uprisings and helped to suppress the revolutionary upheavals of 1905. As premier, he introduced a series of agrarian reforms, which had only limited success. In 1907 he suspended the second Duma, and arbitrarily limited the franchise. He was assassinated in Kiev. |
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