The Revolution of 1905
	n Minister Stolypin introduced important peasant reforms: greater freedom from redemption payments, liberal purchase and sale of land. n He aimed to create a market- oriented peasantry divided from the rest of the peasant mass. n Some entrepreneurs among the peasants - kulaks – did increase production. n But the reform package quickly fell apart as the tsar withdrew rights, took authority away from the Duma, and resumed police repression.