To the question about Stolipins agrarian resettlements in Siberia

Before thegovernment, which in the summer of 1906 was headed by the pa stolypin, was impossible task: to permit the agrarian crisis in the integrity oflandownership, so one of the main directions of the reform was an attempt to mass migration of peasants on the outskirts of the empire,including in Siberia. Assessment of stolypin's agrarian reform is directly opposite, from the single "crash" to excessive praise. Sharp criticismof immigration policy was subjected to another in the course of reform in the book of A.I. Komarova "the Truth about migration case".Materials from the book Komarova took advantage of v.i. Lenin, who, relying on it outlined the facts, the conclusion of total collapse of thestolypin's agrarian policy. In the soviet period the output of Lenin on the "collapse of the" it becomes a dogma, do not admit of a differentopinion. The radical changes that occurred at the turn of the 1980s-1990s., led to a reconsideration of the once-stable lenin's postulates. Thereform was caused by the development of the agricultural processes after the abolition of serfdom. The population grew and the size of plotsto the soul male fell, from 4.8 acres in 1861, to 3.5 tithes in 1880., and up to 2.6 acres in 1900. The question arose about the decision of theagrarian problem, and the resettlement of the excess of the peasant population seemed way out of the situation. Resettlement of peasants inSiberia would require organization of land allocation works, so on January 22, 1885 was founded the west-siberian colonization detachmenton the education of migrant plots and draining them of the captivity. The opening of traffic on the Trans-siberian railway has led to thegrowth of the resettlement movement. The work of the detachment moved very slowly, which led to the situation, when the number ofmigrants was at times exceed the amount of the harvested for their sites. The fund free of land suitable for agriculture has been largelyexhausted, therefore the large majority of the areas included in the resettlement areas, was allocated from land-use old-timers. Adopted onmay 23, 1896 land management law, introduced a single rate of the land plot in 15 acres on the soul of the male sex, which allowed towithdraw from land-use of indigenous peoples and old of the peasantry millions of acres of "superfluous" land for vesting of them migrants.However, these lands, due to natural and geographical conditions of Siberia, were not enough for the resolution of the agrarian crisis. In1906, even before the mass "stolypin "migrations of the minister of agriculture and state property A.S. Ermolov wrote that unforgivabledream on a wide resettlement of all excess of the peasant population of European Russia. At external study of the stolypin's reform in theRussian historiography of the agrarian history of Siberia continue to be gaps. In particular, do not clarified the size of fund of land suitablefor arable land of agriculture, of which directly depends on the evaluation of the results of the "stolypin" resettlement to Siberia.

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