The reason for the murder of P.A. Stolypin, the brutal punishment of Nikolai and his family

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In a fairly short period of time, from 1905 to 1911, 11 attempts were planned and committed against Pyotr Arkadievich Stolypin, the last of which achieved its goal.

On September 1 (14), 1911 in Kiev at the city theater at the play "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" this really great man received two bullets, one wound became fatal. The performance was also attended by Emperor Nicholas II with his family. It was a powerful blow to Russia and personally to the emperor, they removed the smartest man who saved the empire and was against Russia's participation in the world war.

Although Stolypin's agrarian reform cannot be called unequivocally positive (like collectivization in the USSR), so, from 1905 to 1910, per 100 inhabitants in the European part of Russia, the number of horses decreased from 23 to 18, the number of cattle - from 36 to 26 goals; the average grain yield fell from 37.9 pounds from a tithe in 1900-1905 to 35.2 pounds in 1906-1910. Per capita grain production in the empire fell from 25 poods in 1901-1905 to 22 poods in 1905-1910. And in 1911, famine began, which engulfed the provinces with a population of 30 million. But this reform was necessary for Russia, as a country that required industrialization, the Russian Empire entered the 20th century as a predominantly peasant country, with almost 80% of the rural population. and many provincial cities and towns did not actually differ from villages. The Russian peasantry has largely preserved the traditions of a thousand years ago, being the most traditional part of the Russian world. And the state had to transfer it to the "new rails" of management. To do this, it was necessary to deprive a significant part of the peasantry of their land allotment, they moved to cities and became workers, increasing the economic opportunities of the country.

The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire and the head of the key Ministry of the Interior P. A. Stolypin decided to reform the peasant class by destroying the communal method of farming in favor of the medium and large landowner ("strong owners"). The peasants, who could not "get on their feet" in the new conditions, went bankrupt, sold their land allotment and became farm laborers, moved to the city, looking for a new share. There, some of the former farmers nevertheless became lumpen, who did not accept the urban way of life. The process of industrialization of the empire demanded an increasing number of workers from the state power, and there was nowhere to take them, except from the peasants. Therefore, constantly strengthening capitalist relations among the peasants, the state actually deliberately went to the ruin of a part of the peasantry so that they would become workers in the cities. Moreover, in the Russian Empire, this process took place in a relatively "sparing" mode, for example, in contrast to England, where the so-called. "Fencing" virtually eliminated the peasant class (with "bloody legislation", the forcible drive of people from their land, without any alternatives other than vagrancy and slave labor in "workhouses"). It began with the reform of 1861 and was delayed until the beginning of the 20th century. In 1908, compulsory free general primary education was introduced, more than 10 thousand public schools were opened every year, their number had grown to 130 thousand by 1913.

It is clear that the peasantry did not care about the lofty thoughts of the sovereign's people; it resisted, sabotaged these undertakings. If in the first revolution of 1905-1907, the overwhelming majority of the peasantry became the support of the empire - pouring into the so-called. "Black Hundred organizations", advocating the stability of the state, then after the start of the agrarian reform, the mood changed, since 1911 the peasants are increasingly imbued with the ideas of revolutionaries - mainly Socialist-Revolutionaries (Socialist-Revolutionaries). Their program for the socialization of land (the abolition of private ownership of land, its transformation into national property without the right to purchase and sale, the land was transferred to the management of local governments, land use was to become equalizing labor) largely corresponded to the aspirations of most of the peasantry. Then they supported the slogan "Land for the peasants, factories for the workers."

Is Stolypin to blame for the revolution and the death of the empire, and therefore the Romanov family? No, Stolypin was a real statesman and a patriot of his homeland, who understood what the threat of the "world behind the scenes", acting in Russia through its periphery in the form of Freemasonry and "professional revolutionaries". He could not be broken or intimidated: "You will not intimidate!" The transfer of the peasantry to new forms of management (with a predominance of medium and large farms), industrialization were necessary for the empire like air. The leading world powers already possessed enormous industrial potential (like the British Empire, the United States, the German Empire), some powers were rapidly increasing their industrial and military power (Germany, Japan), an arms race was underway on the planet, everything was heading towards a world war. Russia had to be prepared for it. In fact, Stolypin, with the support of the emperor, did what Stalin later did with his collectivization and industrialization. Only Stalin had worse starting conditions - the consequences of the First World War, the Civil War, the liquidation or expulsion of most of the old administrative and scientific elite, plus opposition, sabotage on the part of the "Trotskyists". Stolypin and Nicholas II did not have Stalin's experience in the field of "behind-the-scenes" underground activities, therefore they could not correctly assess the scale of the threat from the revolutionary and Masonic "underground". This ruined them - when Stolypin was removed, the emperor could no longer complete what he had begun, Russia was dragged into the war. They lacked just a few years, in this sense, Stolypin's famous words are quite correct: “The state will have healthy and strong roots, believe me - and the words of the Russian Government will sound completely differently before Europe and the whole world … Friendly, common work based on mutual trust - this is the motto for all of us Russians. Give the State 20 years of peace, internal and external, and you will not recognize the current Russia.”True, Stalin went further and made things wiser than Stolypin: in fact, the community was revived on a new technical basis, by creating machine and tractor stations (MTS) and introducing new agro-technical advances. Backward peasant labor, rural life turned into urban production in the countryside, with the creation of associations and complexes, this was completely impossible with the Western, capitalist way of doing business, but only with state ownership of the means of production and land, plus the development of creative, scientific and technical capabilities villagers - all kinds of art houses, clubs, etc. And Stolypin was deprived of such an opportunity, he believed that a large owner in the village would be interested in the mechanization of agricultural production, in increasing crop yields and an increase in livestock. Unfortunately, this did not happen; large and medium-sized owners chose the path of obtaining super-profits by minimizing the wages of farm laborers, as well as a significant increase in prices for agricultural products. This made the so-called. “Kulaks” were merchants, new capitalists (“new Russians” of that time), who despised that peasant environment (“cattle”), from which they themselves came out. As a result, a real new class of exploiters was formed, which most of the peasants hated, and this eventually brought a significant part of the peasantry to the camp of revolutionaries.

Therefore, Stalin actually continued the work of Stolypin and the sovereigns of the Russian Empire, not only in the field of foreign policy, but in domestic policy, in the creation of a world Russian power. Having carefully studied the legacy of the empire that he inherited (Stalin read a lot), he implemented many projects of the Russian Empire. As a result, the death of the Russian Empire did not become fatal for the people and Russian statehood, Stalin was able to create the great USSR.

Nicholas II, for all his weaknesses and shortcomings, like Stolypin, was not a traitor to Russia and the Russian people, therefore, unlike a number of other representatives of the Romanov dynasty and the elite of the Russian Empire, he was not allowed to end his life in luxury, in Europe. Nicholas and his family were brutally killed as an enemy of the "world behind the scenes".

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