He was the third Prime Minister of Russia, and Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire from 1906 to his assassination in 1911. … As Prime Minister, Stolypin initiated major agrarian reforms, known as the Stolypin reform, that granted the right of private land ownership to the peasantry.

What did the Stolypin reforms do?

Stolypin land reform, (1906–17), measures undertaken by the Russian government to allow peasants to own land individually. … After the government emancipated the serfs in 1861 it allotted land to each peasant household, but the land was collectively owned by the village communes.

How did Stolypin help the Tsar?

He hoped that reorganising the land would increase support for the Tsar among unskilled farmhands. This would reduce the threat of the Social Revolutionaries. Stolypin believed the key to success was to increase the number of peasant landowners, which would result in a more invested peasantry.